9035kms, 34 degrees C 
Cooinda is a bit of a one horse town (but what a horse!) – the Yellow Water Cruise. Beer was $5.50 a schooner, pizzas $30, diesel $1.45/L, unpowered camp sites $30 per night, powered ones $55. We are a captive audience and it is a commercial world. Germany must be empty right now – there are sooo many Europeans here. Goodonem.
Two huge AAT Kings busses rocked up at the camp site around 5pm and before we knew it our quiet rural location was chockers full of grey dudes putting up pyramid tents, like ours, con brio. They are on a 4 week loop from Sydney – Cairns – Kakadu – Uluru and Alice – Adelaide – Sydney. By 6pm they were carted off for the sunset cruise and by 8am the following morning they were gone.
The Yellow Water cruise is quite unbelievable – anyone planning a Kakadu trip, this should be the first on your list. We apologise for the amount of photographic evidence. There are 
6 trip times thro the day - we did the sunrise trip, starting at 6.45am (musicians pls take note). Words cannot do it justice – we felt a little herded with the huge numbers filing onto boats, like bottles on a conveyor belt but what an unbelievable wildlife experience. The Yellow Water video starts with Nicky at Yellow River – check out the whistling kite on the pontoon pole behind her. And in the last Big Wet, there was so much water that the pontoon floated above these poles!! Wildlife in order are Nicky (!), whistling kite, feral pig, saltwater crocodile, jacana (or Jesus bird, as he seems to walks on water), white bellied sea eagle and jabiru.
But wait – there might just be more than one horse! Having wat
ched the sunrise on Yellow Water, we enjoyed the sunset on a Bush Trackers trip onto an aboriginal run buffalo farm. The video shows a big mongrel saltie, buffalo, rufus night heron, birds of the billabong (magpie geese, egrets, herons and ducks), bush cooking and the sunset.
6 trip times thro the day - we did the sunrise trip, starting at 6.45am (musicians pls take note). Words cannot do it justice – we felt a little herded with the huge numbers filing onto boats, like bottles on a conveyor belt but what an unbelievable wildlife experience. The Yellow Water video starts with Nicky at Yellow River – check out the whistling kite on the pontoon pole behind her. And in the last Big Wet, there was so much water that the pontoon floated above these poles!! Wildlife in order are Nicky (!), whistling kite, feral pig, saltwater crocodile, jacana (or Jesus bird, as he seems to walks on water), white bellied sea eagle and jabiru.But wait – there might just be more than one horse! Having wat
ched the sunrise on Yellow Water, we enjoyed the sunset on a Bush Trackers trip onto an aboriginal run buffalo farm. The video shows a big mongrel saltie, buffalo, rufus night heron, birds of the billabong (magpie geese, egrets, herons and ducks), bush cooking and the sunset.
2 comments:
Brilliant bird and wildlife shots Stuart. Hope you were using the zoom when you filmed the crocs! Gosh they really are ugly brutes! Couldn't make out what you were cooking on the campfire. Enjoy!
Mum - the ones of the croc in the green water were pretty close, just the other side of a very large, very robust fence! The food was goose, buffalo and bush damper. Yum! xS
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