Tazzie Talk 11 Undurra to Kakadu

Tazzie Talk

This week we stayed at our first road side stop and my favourite thing Kaka defiantly do!



Undurra Caves



After Cairns we drove for hours ending up stoping at 40 mile scrub road side stop. As far as a road side stops can go it was pretty good. They had a nice 300m walk and a little grassy patch to play on.

After a horrible night’s sleep at 40 mile scrub we went off to a little place called Undara. It had a nice pool and a lot of walks and some lava tubes. We went on a tour and it wasn’t that good we only went into little caves that were not impressive at all we payed $150 to be told at the end of the tour that we can go out and explore it ourselves for free!

1000kms in a car with your brothers hitting you on the head with whatever won’t knock you out isn’t fun. I didn’t care where I ended up I just needed to get out. When we pulled up at a road side stop just out of Eliot we were very surprised to see a camel. His name was noodles and he was walking with his owner from Kathryn to the Alice Springs! CRAZY

Mataranka was really good. With the three caravan parks to choose from we took our time sussing everyone out. We ended up at a nice caravan park called Mataranka Homestead and it was home to 25 thousand bats that stunk so much.

There were two hot springs one of them at the caravan parked and the other just downs the road. I liked the Bitter springs better. They were the springs just down the road and we got to float down with the currant to the end where you can swim.

Edith falls was sooooo hot and thank goodness that there was a swimming hole there. I wanted to go out to pussy cat flats (mainly because it had a hilarious name) but also because it had electricity and we could have the air con running but we ended up at Edith falls and when night came it was still 30dc and I just said, "I told you to go to pussy cat flats, I told you."  When morning arrived we went for a little walk to a nice spring and then on the road again.

Kakadu

I have heard many thing about Kakadu and many of them not very nice at all.  Kaka-don’t many people have told me but if you are willing to get off your butt and do a walk or sit and wait for the crocs at Cahills Crossing it turns out to be Kaka defiantly do!

We went for 2 walks to see aboriginal paintings. They were awesome I really liked the ones of the kangaroos. The pictures I show you won’t bring any justice to what I saw.

On the second walk we saw more paintings and at the top was an amazing 360 look out! It was so cool I got a heap of good picks but they still won’t bring the place any justice.

When we got to Cahills Crossing there was an aboriginal family fishing. The mother Nolene and her two daughters were on hand lines and the dad was on a fishing road with a lure. The girls were brining catfish in one after another. Watching the crocs swim by throwing rocks at them to keep them away because they will only attack on surprise. We saw about 15 crocs. On the last catfish they pulled in a croc chased it in! All Nolein said was “He’s a cheeky one that one. He’s not after my fish he’s after me”

That was my fantastic week now off to Darwin to meet Nicki, Clair, Brendan and they’re very friendly Husky Mia