After several false starts (or stops, as the case may be), we stopped at an amazing spot for lunch on the way out to our lodge in Kakadu National Park. We had lunch at a little gazebo by the carpark, watching Sugar Ants meander about. After lunch we headed up the hill to Nourlangie Rock.
The texture of the rocks underfoot and all around was incredible. The rock was very coarse, and had inclusions of many smaller pebbles within. There were rock formations balanced upside down, very hard to photograph with any sort of perspective, but easy to gawk at. There were cliffs to our backs, and another set at the top of the hill.
We walked a ways up, then Maya and Catherine and I stopped to survey the surrounding area, while Tim explored above. There were fires everywhere, set by rangers to burn off the underbrush before the start of the dry season. Catherine spotted a Wallaroo (a black wallaby?), but it scampered off before Maya and I could catch a glimpse.
After lazing about and admiring the magnitude of beauty surrounding us, we headed down to the Anbanbang Billabong to have a look.
There was a wallaby by the water when we got down there, and we photographed him and caused him general annoyance until he hopped off to find some privacy. There were birds everywhere, our first sighting of Whistling Ducks, geese, herons, egrets and the like.
After a bit we left, Catherine convinced, sorely and begrudgingly, that she wasn't going to get to see anything get taken and mawed by crocs.
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