Kakadu National Park Australia Road Trip (Oct)
Family of 6, (2 Adults, 10,10,9,5)
BRING Passports, Need e-visas APPLY HERE $20AUD, shorts and t-shirts, insect repellant, water thermos, cooler, water bottles, fly nets, transportable food
TRANSPORTATION: AVIS: 7 person, Full Size 4 Wheel Drive
Need: Kakadu National Park Pass, $100 Family Pass
Emergency number: 000
Day 0:
Day 1:
pick up rental car
Get groceries and cooler set up from Woolworths or Coles, lots of water
Drive: Window on the Wetlands, giant termite mounds, Mamukala Wetlands
Arrive Bowali Visitors Center (open 8-5pm)
Check in to Anbinik KAKADU – 2 bedroom lodge, bathroom private steps away (desk closes at 5pm)
Lunch: Groceries
Culture Cruise-EAST ALLIGATOR River TOUR ($348) (Book at the Border Store)
5pm Hike Ubirr: Ubirr Rock: Art Rock motifs in a natural art gallery that stretches more than 40 feet…viewed on the way up to a panoramic lookout.. It was spectacular in the late afternoon.
6pm Sunset: Nardab Lookout
7pm Dine: Border Store, Thai food (open until 8pm)
Day 2:
7-8:30 am Sunrise Birding Walk at Jaibru Lake Bird
Hike Bardedjilidji walk
Head back to Anbinik
Lunch: Groceries
Relax
Dinner: Aurora Lodge for food and swim, great place, maybe even better place to stay.
Day 3:
Breakfast/Check Out
8:30 Drive to Nourlangie
9:00-11:30AM Nourlangie Rock Art Site for guided Rock Art Talks- fantastic!
Lunch: Groceries
12:30PM Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Center at Cooinda (8-5pm)✅
Drive to Cooinda, Cooinda Lodge Kakadu – 1 Night Via Kakadu Highway, Jim Jim, Cooindah, 0886 Cooinda (Phone: +61889791500)
Pool Time
4:30PM Yellow Water Sunset Cruise
Dinner: 7PM Hotel Restaurant, local animal sample platter
Day 4:
9:30AM hotel breakfast and check out.
Drive
Hike 1km stairs up to Gunlom Waterfall, creek at bottom
Lunch: Groceries
Drive and Arrive in Katherine (3 hrs)
5:30PM Edith Falls 1km Hike and swim
Drive to Knotts Crossing Resort – 1 night Cnr Giles & Cameron Streets, 0851 Katherine, (Phone: +61889722511)
Dinner: Savannah Cafe at hotel
Day 5:
9am The Finch Cafe (Hours 8am-2pm) (hipster health food)
Katherine Gorge Helicopter Ride
Emerald Spring Roadhouse
Drive to Litchfield 3 hours
Litchfield: Watering holes
Wangi Falls and Buley Rockhole pools
Drive to Darwin hotel Vibe Hotel Darwin Waterfront – 3 Nights 7 Kitchener Drive, Darwin CBD, 0800 Darwin, (Phone: +61889829998)
Chow’s for Dinner
Day 6:
Hotel Breakfast Curve
Lagoon Wave Pool ($18 per family)
Mindil Beach Market (Thursday and Sundays only): Food, Craft, Shows, SUNSET
DeckChair Cinema Outdoor Movies
Day 7:
Crocosaurus Cove (can prebook to swim in the cage with a crocodile)
Lunch at Tap’s… Not great
4:30-5:30PM Big Buoy Water Park
Chow’s for Dinner (again!)
Trampoline Ice Cream
Pack
Day 8:
FLIGHT
Grocery needs:
Water bottles, bread, lunch meats, hummus, guacamole, peanut butter and jelly, chips, bars
Powerades
Jabiru:
There’s a grocery store open 7 days a week 9-5:30, except Sundays closes at 1:30
BP gas station closes at 8:30pm each night
3 restaurants: Thai at Border Store, Aurora Lodge, or the Croc shaped hotel.
Bring meat for Barbie from Darwin or plan to make grocery store before it closes daily.
Can’t Do it ALL 🙁
*Berry Springs – Found out later they do a 9:40 AM Wallaby Encounter, should have landed and gone straight there.
Jim Jim Falls – Closed for the season due to early rains, this one was devastating to miss
Maguk Falls – Closed for the season due to early rains
*Dinner: 7-9:30 PM Marksie’s Stockman’s Camp Tucker Night (Katherine) Under the Stars with Wallabys and camp stories
Cutta Cutta Caves
Anbangbang Billabong walk/Nawurlandja Lookout walk (1 ½ hours)
Twin Falls (Closed for season)
