Jumping Crocs!

After Darwin, we headed out to Kakadu, an amazing national park full of jumping crocs! We started out all excited to be back on the road and only about an hour later we suddenly passed a road train that threw up a load of gravel all over our windscreen, which left us with a giant crack across the screen. We put it down to the curse of Kakadu. We met a terrific couple, Andy and Monica in Darwin, who had bought a new van from the city only 3 weeks previously and on their first trip into Kakadu, the van broke down. This was also topped off by passing an overturned large caravan in the road. This place has to be cursed!

Anyhow after driving back to the city briefly to get the screen repaired we were back on the road to catch our afternoon Jumping Croc Tour on Adelaide River. The tour was absolutely brilliant. We went out in a tiny 20 person boat and as we journeyed up river the crew threw out rods with buffalo attached to tease the crocs out for us. We were also really lucky to catch the Big boy, aka 'Grandad', a 70yr or so old saltwater croc, who you really wouldn't want to mess with!