We spent our first night in Northern Territory in a town called Katherine where the road from WA meets the north-to-south Stuart Highway. NT is Australia's most sparsely populated state with only 300,000 people. It also has the highest speed limits (130 km/h on main roads where most states have 110). The next day we headed to Litchfield national park and visited a couple of cool waterfalls and swimming holes.
Florence Falls
We stayed the night in Litchfield 'safari park' where it rained a lot. There were so many bugs Cath refused to go to the loo and elected to she-pee instead. It was the low season, but Litchfield is very easy trip from Darwin, so we went to Litchfield's top attraction, Wangi Falls, early the next day to avoid the crowds (and have a wash).
Magnetic termite mounds
After this we went to Darwin, our first city since leaving Perth 3 weeks before. It felt good to be back in.civilisation but Darwin was underwhelming. We both had a haircut. Even though it was just the start of the wet season, the humidity especially at night was fairly extreme and it would rain every evening. After two nights in Darwin we went to Litchfield's more famous brother, Kakadu national park. Here we paid $80 each for a boat tour of the wetlands. It seemed like a lot but turned out to be one of the best things we did in Australia. We saw at least 10 saltwater crocs really close up and all kinds of amazing birdlife. Screw those dry season guys, this was the time to visit Kakadu. It was phenomenal.
That evening was the most thunder, lightening and rain I've seen in my life. Luckily the campsite had a bar to hide in, and the trusty tent stayed dry as ever.
The next day we went to continued driving around Kakadu seeing a lot of aboriginal rock art and some pretty incredible views.
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