I have been a member of auszookers.com (Australian Suzuki) for a few years now. My personal Suzuki is a bit too new to do some of the hardcore tracks that the boys like to get up to, but that didn’t stop me tagging along on a recent trip in Darwin.
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Kakadu and Litchfield – in the wet
A lot of people say that Kakadu is great in the wet season, as long as you know where to go. We had heard that Motorcar falls was a good walk and a great spot to swim. I met the rest of the gang at the Cooinda on the Saturday and we headed down to Motorcar falls. The walk is amazing, it is was really great to see Kakadu like that. Can you say green? The rain was on and off but it was so warm that you didn’t mind. It was the greenest place I had ever seen.
We didn’t camp, partly due to the random storms that hit during the wet, partly due to us taking a lot of randoms in cars. Paid accommodation was just easier.
The walk brought us to the swimming home. It was a “okay to swim but be careful of crocs” type of swimming hole, but that combined with the insane currents from all the water made us all very cautious. It was a great spot. The walk back was worse… no cool refreshing swim on the end of that! We headed over to a house we rented in Litchfield at a caravan park, for the night, before going to Florence Falls the next day. I had been to Florence falls a few times but it was good to see it with the water belting over. It was crowded, even though it was a Monday, it always is. We tried to head over to Wangi after that but a storm came over and suddenly it was thundering down, so we headed home.
It was very green on the Motorcar walks
The waterfall
The skies can really open up at this time of year
Katherine Birthday Trip
Claire surprised me with a trip to Katherine staying at the new Cicada Lodge (or as she pronounces it, kick-arda). It was in January so we couldn’t swim anywhere there, but we took a boat trip down and got to see some of the Gorge itself.
I’m hardly used to staying in fancy resorts instead of a tent, but I really liked the place, and the food was really good. Here I am on the balcony… note actually the Melbourne is mine 😉
On the way back home we thought we stop at Edith. It was open, the second pool was available to swim in, and no one was there! It is usually a really popular spot, given it was open for swimming on a weekend, I was amazed that we were the only ones there.
Sandy and Surprise Creek falls
Claire and I went with some friends of ours around the back of litchfield. It was great fun.
Surprise and Sandy Creek falls solo
Went around the back of litchfield by myself. It was virtually dead – I seem to remember the V8’s were on.
Funny story is I took a photo of myself pumping up my tyres to prove to Claire that I use the air compressor. Months later I lost my camera – the person who found it tracked me down using my rego plate from that snap!
Water crossing is scary – probably never doing it again!