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Travel In Australia Holiday – Our First Big Trip Itinerary And Adventure Part Four

In June 2000 we set off on our ‘First Big Trip’ travel in Australia holiday, we had been planning for about 12 months, full of excitement and anticipation the day had finally come that we left home on our first Aussie Adventure.

Our itinerary started from country Victoria travelling to Central Australia, Darwin, Kakadu and travelling south via Outback QLD and NSW all in 6 weeks and approx 10,000 kms.

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Part One Part Two Part Three

This is Part Four of our ‘First Big Trip’ travelling from Berry Springs, near Darwin to Jabiru in Kakadu National Park.

We are in Berry Springs about 30 kms south of Darwin, we chose to stay at Berry Springs as there is plenty to do in the area and we were only 30 minutes from Darwin. The park we stayed at Lakes Resort Caravan Park, they had a very cool water slide that we could use any time, so it was very easy to amuse the kids and adults!

Day 20 – We visited the Territory Wildlife Park which was great, mostly based around tropical and top end wildlife, the highlight was the Bird of Prey display.

We also went to Berry Springs Nature Reserve which was another place to swim and relax.

Day 21 – We drove into Darwin for the day and went shopping, toured and went to Aquascene fish feeding, we were able to feed hundreds of fish, sting rays etc that come in every day for the feeding.

Day 22 – This day we stayed at the park all day, used the water slide many times and had a relax which we needed. That night we had a meal at the restaurant in the Park. That day was July 1^st of July 2000, the first day our GST tax was started, so when we payed for the meal it was the first time we payed GST.

Day 23 – We went to Darwin again, we were interested in going on a croc cruise so that we could see some crocs in their natural habitat and do some fishing. So we found a tour suitable which we were doing the next day. On the way home we stopped at Howard Springs, which has large Barramundi swimming in it which you are allowed to swim with. So a few of us did.

Day 24 – Our tour guide was ‘Harry’ we met him and he drove us to the Adelaide River where his very large ‘tinny’ was waiting for us. We all got aboard the boat and headed off down the river. The kids started counting the crocs on the banks of the river. They were everywhere, absolutely amazing, baby ones up to about 5 metre crocs. The counting got past 100 they gave up too many!

We cruised along for about an hour and went past the ‘Jumping Croc’ Cruise Boat which is a 2 hour cruise and they have a croc that jumps for bait beside the boat. We told Harry we nearly went on that boat so we could see a croc jump, Harry said no problem he can do the same!! WOW!!

So a bit later he said look over to the left and a croc was coming towards the boat.

It was a croc about 2 metres long and we could see it right up close.

Harry had a wooden pole with rope and tied bait on. The croc looked several times then jumped up for it.

We had lunch with a mate of Harry’s called Steve he lived on a small island until the wet season starts, it gets flooded then. We got back onto the boat and returned, on the way back we saw 2 buffalo, assorted birds and a croc swimming across with a kangaroo in its mouth. It was quite a day, far better than we thought it would be. We went back to camp, that was the last day at Berry Springs, next day we go to Jabiru in Kakadu National Park.