Jabiru / Kakadu National Park

Day 40. On Friday we travelled 171 km (total 5350) to Jabiru in Kakadu National park. We camped at Kakadu lodge caravan park . The pool is awesome and I can ride no hands on my bike on the roads in the caravan park. We had a look around the town and went to the airport and we booked our flights and mine tour for Saturday. We swam before dinner then had another swim after dinner under lights over the pool.

Day 41. On Saturday (June 26th) in the morning we did the Ranger Uranium Mine Tour. We saw a massive massive digger and a huge huge dump truck in the open cut mine. At the mine they dig out rock which have uranium in them. They process the uranium and put it into drums to be sent overseas for power stations. We went on a Kakadu scenic flight. It was one hour. I had so much fun until after a waterfall called JimJim falls and I began to feel sick. Then we flew over Twin Falls - they were like a waterfall that had been joined together then split in half. I was a bit hot in the plane. Sometimes it was a bit smoky too because they were burning off the forest. Dad felt sick also. You dont want to know what happened. It was still an awesome flight because we got to see lots of Kakadu National Park. After the flight we went to the resort pool and had a nice cool swim.

Day 42-43 JUNE 27-28TH

DAY 42-JUNE 27th

Today we went to see some Aboriginal rock art at Ubirr. Some of the rock art was 30000 years old. The skeleton pictures were about 2000 years old. Along the walking trail we climbed some rocks and then at the top we saw spectacular views of the wetland plains of Kakadu. On the way back from the Aboriginal art we saw some burnoff fires and when we were driving along through the smoke all the smoke was coming the airconditioning vents in the car. The fire was just right on the side of the road so we got some pictures. They have these burnoff fires to stop the bush getting too overgrown and it will help stop massive bushfires later on in the dry season.

DAY 43-JUNE 28th

Today we left Jabiru and travelled south along the Kakadu Highway through the Kakadu national park and down to Pine Creek, where we stayed at Pussycat Flats and we are camping on the horse racetrack. Later that day it was getting really hot so me and Adam got into our bathers and went for a ride under the sprinklers, and we got really cooled down.

DAY 40-41 JUNE 25th -26th

DAY 40-JUNE 25th

Today we went and stayed at Kakadu Lodge it has a very nice lagoon style pool. We also think it has a very nice road for bike riding. We also went to the airfield and booked a flight for the next day. Later that day we went and had a swim at the pool. It was very refreshing. Jabiru is located 250km east of Darwin and it is very hot and humid here. The town of Jabiru is not that big the population is about 1700 and a lot of those are mining families. Total travelled 5350km.
DAY 41-JUNE 26th

This morning we went on a RUM tour (Ranger Uranium Mine) where we saw the mine in the ground. It was very big. There were lots of big dump trucks and excavators. Uranium is mineral that is taken overseas and used in nuclear power plants. For one drum which is 200 litres in size it costs $60000. Later that day We went for another swim in the pool and then we went on the plane flight that we booked. It had really amazing views. The plane was a Gippsland G8 Airvan which seated 7 plus the pilot. It was a bit of a bumpy ride because it was hot, but we got some good photos of JimJim Falls and Twin Falls and the rock escarpment. An airplane flight was a good idea because you cant get as good views and it takes two hours both ways 4WD off the main road to get to JimJim falls and it's closed at the moment because of the late wet season. When we got back from the flight we had one more swim in the pool.