Darwin & The Beginning of Kakadu National Park: Feb 26

Warning: The following images contain people in close proximity to dangerous wild animals. Viewer discretion is advised, particularly for Moms.

Welcome to the land of dangerous wild animals! Crocodile infested waters, poisonous snakes and poisonous frogs are some of the many creatures that inhabit this part of the land. Naturally, we got close to some of them and camped in tents.

We started our day holding a snake then hit the water for some crocodile jumping in the Adelaide River! In the picture, I may look like I am enjoying holding the snake but let's just say it took quite a few minutes to build up the courage and then a lot of shrieking and bad pictures before we got one good shot. What a way to wake up! Afterwards, was the insane crocodile jumping. Experienced individuals put meat (raw buffalo at this company) on the end of a bamboo stick and encourage the crocodiles to eat the meat. However, to avoid having the crocodiles rely on this as their food source, they have to work for it and that's where the jumping comes in. The idea is for the crocodile to leave as hungry as it arrived. After the crocodile jumping, we headed over to Kakadu National Park for some beautiful sights and amazing aboriginal rock drawings. All the drawings shown below were painted between 5,000 and 20,000 years ago and have not even been touched up!

The Water Python & I

Crocodiles in the Adelaide River

We only saw a few but there are between 6,000 and 10,000 in the small section of the river we traveled. You don't want to fall in!

Kakadu National Park

A Termite Mound

The aboriginals used wild berries to paint their skin. Likewise, our tour guide did the same to me