May 24, 2001 - Thursday - Kakadu National Park, Australia
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| Almost eerie grave stone-like Magnetic Termite Mounds - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
Jim Jim Falls and Twin falls were still closed for the season so we won't be visiting those two attractions. We headed out in the morning and most people were quiet and listened to our guide, Tija, talk about the historical backgrounds and ecological information about the Kakadu area.
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| Huge Cathedral Termite mounds - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
Tija was a really good guide - very knowledgeable and fun to get along with so that was a good sign for the trip. We stopped at a termite mound area and stopped to look at the magnetic and cathedral mounds in the area. They were impressively huge and I took a picture of Tija, who is very tall already, standing next to a cathedral mound.
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| Plunge Pool - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
We stopped by a plunge pool after that and some people swam for a while but it was too cold for me. We stopped by a waterfall called Florence fall in Litchfield National Park and again, too cold for me but the scenery along the way through the now drying rainforest and the billabongs are great.
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| Waterfall - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
I didn't bond too much with the people in this group for some reason. I think I was a bit exhausted from all the interactions in the past week and also, the group didn't really bond as a group overall. We drove through a dirt road for a while before we got to our camp. There were some mozzies flying around so we all doused ourselves with repellents.
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| Plaing Diggeridu - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
Tija cooked and prepared most of the lunch and dinner, which was excellent for a change, and we gladly washed up afterward. There were little wallabies hopping around the grounds and they were still around even late into the night.
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| Frogs hiding in the wood cracks before emerging in the night - Kakadu National Park, Australia |
Geckos and little brown tree frogs could be found even in the bathroom walls and in tree stomps. We gathered to listen to some aboriginal history from an aborigine and he played the didgeridoo for us. He was really trying to get the group to participate but not many people were into it for some reason.
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