No internet for several days so expect a backlog of events.

Highlight of my trip so far. Left Darwin and drove to a Jumping crocs tour. Took photos with the big croc, looked in their shop and examined their displays.. to be told after presenting our tickets that we were at the wrong tour group. Thank goodness I am with people who like to be early.

We piled back into the car and headed to the correct tour – Adelaide River Jumping Crocs Tour. We were told 15 minutes to get there but it took us 28 minutes…2 minutes before the tour was due to leave!

It was worth it. Best experience ever. The difference between the caged crocodiles of two days ago and the wild crocodiles is immense. It was as close to being with the crocodiles as humanly possible. These ancient creatures were menacing but our tour operator knew his crocs and had a name for all the males. It was interesting that none of the females were named. Following the tradition, Donna and I named Wayne and Grubbie, Les and Buddha. No fighting, boys. You might lose a limb.

We then drove to Cooinda in Kakadu. We stopped at the Bark Hut Inn for lunch on the way (great pizza).

We arrived at Cooinda, settled into our glamping tents and enjoyed some quiet drinks in the outdoor bar area.

Dinner could have been a bit of a fiasco. We decided to eat in the restaurant and ordered two $58 shared platters of crocodile, kangaroo, buffalo and barramundi. Despite being in a restaurant, we had to pick up our meals. We knew there were problems when Mark and Wayne returned wth just one. Mark had dropped his, much to all the other patrons’ amusement. We think this is a regular occurrence as it was easily replaced.

To add insult to injury, Mark got locked out of the bathroom facilities in the early hours of the following morning. He was rescued by a grumpy local who wasn’t pleased with the number of lodgers requiring the same thing. In all fairness, the code and turn of the handle stumped us all (except Wayne) at one time or another.