After an excellent week in Vietnam, we arrived in Darwin, Australia at 04.30, with a 3 hour wait for a pick-up to Kakadu. We were just thinking of getting our binoculars out so the guide would recognise us when a typical Ozzie in safari shirt & shorts approached us, it was Gerry our guide for the next 3 days.
Bird watching started in the airport car park where we clocked blue-faced honeyeater & black-faced cuckoo-shrike. We then made our way to Fogg Dam which is a water area created from a failed rice growing project. Some of the water birds there were familiar such as egrets. There were also some new ones for us such as comb-crested Jacana, or Jesus bird, which appears to walk on water. We wended our way in the heat up to the Kakadu national park, gathering ticks as we went. No not the biting kind. This was a catered trip - Gerry as well as driving and guiding was our chef and rustled up a delicious lunch under a shady tree. First major stop was for a cultural visit to an aboriginal community, near to the camp where we would be based.
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