Kakadu National Park - Gunlom Falls (2 nights)

Another cracker of a camping spot! The road into the site is 40km of rough stuff so mainly camping trailers and off-road campervans were camped there, heaps of families.  At the foot of the falls is a large pool with signs warning that crocodiles can enter the area undetected so be careful, needless to say we only saw a few crazies like us who ran into the shallows, dunked under and then run out again! The better swimming was in the top pools where crocs don’t go due to the altitude, you walk up a steepish track and then find paradise in those plunge pools; we spent most of the day there lounging around like lizards in the sun. 

Gunlom Falls from the bottom

At the top of Gunlom Falls in the natural infinity pool

I spotted these little rainbow bee-eaters down by the bottom of the falls, the wildlife here is amazing if you stop and look.   The first night a herd of wild horses thundered past the camp site, an impressive noise in the dead of night!  At first I thought it was a herd of water buffalo but I then heard some neighing, so yes it was horses.  They and, get this, donkeys run feral in the park.  We spotted a large herd of donkeys on the way out of the park, it looks really strange and unexpected.  We then went to Katherine for a night stocking up on supplies before heading westward towards Broome.

The beautiful Rainbow Bee-eaters