Kakadu - Views from Nadab lookout at Ubirr

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Tue 25 Jun 2013 08:52

Fantastic views of the floodplains that stretch across Kakadu’s lowlands.  This view is the best so far.  All this had been built up from the sand and silt eroding from rocks and being carried by wet season waters.  The rocks we are standing on were created 1700 million years ago as part of the Kombolgie Sandstone formation.

 

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Over the drying out wetlands.

 

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Still small patches of water left.

 

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Another blue patch.

 

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Paul on edge.

 

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You can just about make out some termite mounds in the bottom part of the picture.

 

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Stony ground.

 

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Paul standing beside this huge lump of tilted rock.

 

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Nice bedding planes.

 

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Bit of wind and rain sculpturing.

 

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At the bottom again noticed that pandamus trees grow in a spiral pattern.

 

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Someone must have doed resently because we noticed red stain on a lot of trees near the rainbow serpent. A sign of death.

 

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A pointing Paul.

 

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You can just about make out a green ant – that thing that made the nest of the leaves.

 

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Just a nice shot of dead or dormant fern.

 

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