Mary River & Kakadu Nationalpark

After stacking up our supplies we started our journey towards the Mary River Wetlands and the Kakadu Nationalpark. We already had seen both of them on earlier trips, but always at the beginning of the Wet Season. Then thousands of different birds flock in the different floodplains to feast on the quickly growing food that is supllied in abundnace by nature. We were looking forward to find out how they look in the dry season.

We noticed that it is much less warm and humid around that time of the year. Since it cools down pretty much during the nights, the crocodiles can be seen more often along the rivers and billabongs where they were sunning themselves. They were as well less quickly disapearing, such that the cruise boats could approach at times as close as 4-5 m before the took off.

Although there were significantly less birds visible along he rivers and billabongs, we would still see very many different species that at times even held still for a picture to be taken. Mainly though for our SLR Camera since our digital camera didn't feature strong zoom function.