Kakadu is one of the world's great national parks: 20,000 sq km of rock and wetland and continuously occupied, according to Archaeologists, for 20,000 years. Some of the art-works date from this time and make Kakadu just as important as Lascaux in France: indeed, perhaps more important, because descendants of the artists are still living in the area. There must be few if any places in the world with that length of occupation. For example, the native peoples of North America only arrived there 10,000 years ago! And, similar historic sites in Britain ... for example, Stonehenge, are only one-third as old. Unsurprisingly, Kakadu is world heritage listed.
It teems with wild-life, as do most wetlands such as France's Camargue or Brazil's Pantanal, and we had the good fortune yesterday to float through Yellow Water at Cooinda. I hasten too add that we floated on a boat: the waters contain lots of crocodiles! The attached pictures show a fish eagle, a barramundi (fish), a jabiru (Australian stork) high above the flood plain atop its nest, an egret and a small crocodile trying to make itself inconspicuous.
Dot and I are looking for an excuse to revisit the area, so pay us a visit and we might arrange something!
AS
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