Kakadu National Park

No visit to the Top End of the Northern Territory can ever be complete unless you experience the magnificent Kakadu National Park. It is supremely beautiful and immensely important for its Aboriginal history and unique ecology. The 19,000 square kilometer World Heritage listed park is 260kms (162 miles) east of Darwin on the sealed Arnhem Highway. Most accessible in the dry season from May to September, it is at its most spectacular in the Wet as evening storms deluge the land creating massive lakes teaming with birdlife. Though you may not be able to see the entire park’s most beautiful places, such as Jim Jim and Twin Falls, any time is the right time to go to Kakadu. What you do see you will never forget.

Allow as much time as you can to visit Kakadu. A day tour from Darwin is a great introduction, though if time permits stay overnight so you can give yourself at least two full days. The park headquarters at Bowali, near the main town of Jabiru, and entry stations on the Arnhem and Kakadu Highways have detailed maps and brochures. You can see much of the park in a conventional vehicle but some areas are accessible only to four-wheel drives. Some roads are closed from the start of the Wet for six months.

Drive yourself or take one of the many guided tours from Darwin. Kakadu is a very varied and complex place, so even if you have a rental vehicle, take a guided day tour which concentrates on either Aboriginal culture or the environment. These generally operate in the dry season from Jabiru, though some are year round. At Kakadu there is a full range of accommodation. It is possible to camp out or stay in hotels ranging from budget to first class. Hotel/motel style accommodation is available at Cooinda, Jabiru and South Alligator River.

Kakadu Attractions

Kakadu National Park offer an amazing variety of activities and attractions like Scenic Flights, Boat Cruises, Kakadu Walking Tours and Fishing Tours.

Kakadu is the complex integration of masses of wildlife, entwined through a huge and vastly diversified landscape, the rich homelands of Aboriginal occupancy over many thousands of years.
Visitors need to seek out the heart of Kakadu. 
Plan your visit, read the pamphlets, take bush walks, attend ranger talks and slide shows, visit Bowali and Warradjan.

Kakadu and neighbouring Arnhem Land is a vast panorama of changing landscapes, as varied as ancient sandstone plateau, edged with dramatic escarpments, trapped waters plunge (seasonally) as waterfalls, forming rivers, and thrust a winding path though an amazing diversity of eco systems, there are monsoon forests open forests savannah woodlands, billabongs, floodplains, mangroves, mudflats

A wilderness journey from placid wetlands, to a distant ocean.

Unfortunately, but logically Kakadu highways avoid wet or rocky terrain, and the forest veils the sights we anticipated and expected to see.

A Kakadu Air scenic flight rises above it all, giving views that will forever change your perception of this timeless land.

For the people who have a day free and would love to catch a b

arra the fishing tours are for you.

From February to May, fish the South Alligator River, Shady Camp and Adelaide Rivers as Barra congregate in the annual feast of food from the recent wet season.

June to November fish Corroboree Billabong, Hardy’s Lagoon, Shady Camp (upstream).  The birdlife around these water lily lined billabongs is spectacular and many people visit these just to see the scenery and wildlife, you will be doing it while presenting your lures to Barra, Saratoga, and Tarpon.

Salt water day trip options include Bynoe Harbour, Darwin Harbour and the Vernon Islands fishing for multiple species as well as the Barramundi. Bait or lure fishing can be accommodated.