August 23, 2010 | By Ruth Lunn | General Blogging

No computer or internet access for our fortnight in the north, but back in Melbourne now for the last few days of our holiday.  We’ve gone from 36 degrees back down to 14 in Melbourne, but the sun has been shining so that helps.

It’s been 16 years since I first went to Kakadu in the Northern Territory.  Last time I was there it was late October, the end of the dry season and the ‘build up’ to the wet, so – as might be expected – the park was very dry.

This year, the wet didn’t finish until the end of May, which is very late, so consequently there was a lot of water around this time, which made it look really beautiful – all very green and the wetlands were plentiful.

One highlight was watching the sunset from Ubirr Rock – looking out across Arnhem Land – the view goes on for miles.

The other highlight was the crocs – saw plenty of those (some a little too close for comfort). We took a cruise on Yellow Water and saw some really ugly bruisers.  Yuck. Nathan was the only one on the boat who thought we weren’t close enough to the big salty.

The week before we went out to the Great Barrier Reef for a spot of snorkelling and a trip on the glass bottomed boat – the boys were particularly keen to see the coral and all the fish.  We got to swim with a turtle as well as a stingray, but did think the coral looked in a lot poorer state compared with 1994 when we last visited that section.