The next morning (Sat. Sept.1) we all got up bright eyed and bushy tailed and headed to Mamukala. This wetlands was full of beautiful scenery and birds. We then headed on to Bardedjilidjl Walking trail which took us along East Alligator River. This trail took us through some cool rocks some with aboriginal art and some cave like ones to. The boys loved the walk along the river as it was full of crocodiles. All of us ladies were a bit more nervous and the fact that we saw how high they can jump we didn’t feel to safe. We also thought the guys were a bit crazy. Once again we were reminded of how different men and women are. After our long hike we headed back to Ubirr Rock and had lots of time to look at all the Aboriginal Rock Art and hear some history about the area and the Aboriginal people. Just before sunset we headed to the lookout point of the rock. The view from this massive rock was breathtaking. There were two levels of this rock. The lower level you saw more massive rocks that were stacked like the game janga and the massive flood plans with kangaroos running across the vast green fields containing a few trees and pockets of water with different kinds of elegant birds. Once at the top portion of the rock you could see everything. Someone said that they felt like we were in the movie Lion King where the monkey holds the new baby Simba up and all the animals are down below. Besides what you could see on the lower level you could also see a vast expansion of lush green vegetation of every kind. There were large groups of white cockatoos that would take off all together and swoop across the blanket of green. When the sun started to set it was magical as the color of the sky kept changing. Once we all pulled ourselves away from the beautiful scenery of that place we headed back to Jabiru for the night. That night we enjoyed an extraordinary meal by Nick and Erienne that there were few words except for the odd “this is incredible”. We ended the night with some good conversation and great laughs.
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