This post details just one small (but excellent) part of our time in Kakadu National Park: the Yellow Water Cruise. You may wish to read the more general post about our time in Kakadu National Park first.
The Yellow Water Cruise was certainly one of the highlights of our time in Kakadu, and no doubt our overall trip around Aus. We were in a boat with a young but knowledgeable guide, and we observed up close much wildlife we would not have otherwise seen during our time in Kakadu.
We chose the 4:30pm sunset cruise, which goes for 2 hours. Both for the wildlife activity, and the softer pretty sunset light. Have a look at some of what we saw:
beautiful….
now that is a tree top nest!!
Brolgas
Kingfisher
White Bellied Sea Eagles
how about a nest weighing 1-2 ton?
Monster! The biggest our guide had seen in here! About 5.5m. Saw plenty of smaller ones too!
Jacana, or lilypad walker
some weird unknown species…
Brolgas in flight
Jabiru!
Below is a video of some short clips taken during the cruise (spliced together), available in full HD.
As you would have gathered from the above photos and video, we saw a large array of beautiful wildlife. It was a great cruise, enjoyed by all 4 of us.
Hey I did that cruise! The birds in NT are awesome hey
So pleased you did the boat cruise! Most ppl who have been to NT say that was a highlight. Great movie too 🙂
Wow!wow! And more Wow…
Keep it up its great reading your post…
Take care