This is the Biggest National Park I've Ever Seen! ~ Kakadu National Park

Kakadu!

Kakadu National Park is enormous. Ab-so-lut-ely massive. Seriously, 25,000 SQUARE kilometres?!?! Big park.  If you didn't know, dogs aren't allowed in National Parks so we had to drop off Jaz at a dog-sitter. We stayed at two different spots in Kakadu, so keeeeeep reading!

First Stop
Our first stop in Kakadu had no power or electricity, so we rationed water while the solar panels on our roof soaked up the sun. We participated in a boat tour here and saw an abundance of crocs! We were lucky to have Dennis as our tour guide, who was super funny, but he's also part aboriginal too, so he knows the facts.

"That over there will kill ya, that'll eat ya, and if you're not dead yet then you'll soon be drowned,"

Nice. 👌

- Croc... -


- Bigger Croc... -


- *caption writer leaves the room* -

We also went to Maguk, a big waterhole filled to the brim with freshies! But freshies don't hurt humans... right? We had to climb over a bunch of rocks and do a bit of hiking to get there, but it was all worth it in the end.



- Maguk -


Second Stop
Our second stop was a resort, so no more rationing water! (I think we would've been fine actually, we have tons of water,) we decided for once to just have a resort day to just relax and do nothin'. By 'nothing' I mean we didn't leave the resort, we still did stuff... Yep... DEFINETLY did stuff... 

On another day, however, we tagged along on an aboriginal rock painting tour. It's quite interesting, some of the paintings are of animals, others are people, and all of them have a reason.

When an aboriginal kills something to eat it, they'll paint it. This is to show their respect as the creature died to become a meal.

The paintings of people (or some of them, at least,) are stories, ones with messages for new generations. Every year an aboriginal child learns a new layer to the story, so while we viewed the real basic story, it probably becomes a lot more complex as you grow.


- Rock Art -


- Dad and Cooper on the edge of a cliff. -


- Some more Rock Art -


- And some more Rock Art -
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