Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Sleep in day. Well, if one can call it sleeping while the entire camp around you is in total uproar from 5.30am onwards as people get ready to go on tours, go fishing, rush the toilets etc. The groundsman reckons that the park is full and that there are about 600 people here. Caravans are in a minority again, tents abound, including three behind us with 27 Indian looking persons going on in the open as if they were still in their flat in Mumbai. We did a bit of a drive around the park, taking in Jim Jim billabong, which was totally deserted and a revisit to Nourlangie to checkout the rock art again. Funny how things never live up to your memories, still what is on view is pretty good but maybe i was a bit harsh on Injalak. After lunch at the park's visitors centre and a look through the gallery, we came back for another welcome swim before having an early dinner prior to our evening cruise on the billabong. We had the tasting platter: buffalo, crocodile, kangaroo and barramundi...

Happy Birthday Muriel Having missed out on the Jim Jim Falls and Twin Falls Tour, we opted for the Arnhem Land Ultimate Experience instead. Arnhem Land for those not familiar with how things work up here, is a restricted area which belongs to and is populated solely by the indigenous owners. To get in you need a permit  potentially available from the NT Aboriginal Land Council in Darwin, or link up with a tour operator who has already greased the wheels. So, getting in for a look is considered a bit special, and of course the major attraction is the rock art, which from all reports is extraordinarily fantastic. The snip you always see is of a square rigged sailing boat and Europeans, assumedly from the 1600 - 1900 period. We had to drive up to Jabiru to meet the tour-bus that had left Darwin at 5am. (now there's one trip i am glad i missed, it's 300km). From Jabiru we travelled out along the road to Ubihr, where we saw some pretty good rock art and scenery last year, and...