Kakadu

Kakadu is a living cultural landscape. 20,000 sq kms UNESCO World Heritage listed, where ancient culture and dramatic wilderness merge. Cascading waterfalls plunge into stone gorges, floodplains hum with wildlife, and some of the world’s oldest Aboriginal rock art tells stories that stretch back tens of thousands of years.

The Cahills Crossing viewing area on the western bank of the East Alligator River is a safe place to watch estuarine (saltwater) crocodiles in the wild.

Estuarine (saltwater) crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), Kakadu’s fiercest predators and the world’s largest reptiles, gather in large numbers around this causeway to feed on mullet and barramundi as the tide pushes in and over the road that leads into Arnhem Land.

It’s a seasonal phenomenon that occurs in the later part of the dry season, during wurrkeng and kurrung, when floodplains and other nearby waterways dry out and the freshwater flow from the headwaters of the East Alligator River decreases

This road train had to stop halfway across to let the croc turn around

Lying in wait for a barramundi to glide over the causeway, and ....

We stayed far too long at Cahills Crossing, transfixed by the large number of crocs waiting for an easy feed, so after a picnic lunch, it was off to Ubirr to see the rock art.