Day 41: Palmerston to Kakadu National Park

Today we headed out of the big smoke and into Kakadu National Park. Along the way we stopped at Mamukala and walked out to the bird hide to have a look at the wetlands. We saw an azure kingfisher, little masked frogs, dragonflies, lots of egrets, cormorants and even a Australasian Darter.

Our next stop was the Bowali visitors centre to pick up some maps, get a few suggestions of places to go over the next three days, and look around the displays of the flora and fauna of the park. Soon after leaving the visitors centre we pulled into camp at Cooinda Lodge and the kids headed straight to the pool to cool off.

This is the first place that we have stayed at where the mozzies were really bad and not just annoying. So we had dinner inside the screened camp kitchen rather than braving it back at the caravan.