Day 13
The first half of the day was just driving from Jabiru to Batchelor. We stopped at Adelaide River and visited briefly Jumping Crocodile Cruises site (not for us), and then at Window on the Wetlands Visitor Centre for panoramic view of the backcountry and at Humpty Doo to re-supply. We arrived at ☞ Batchelor Holiday Park around 1 pm. And almost immediately took off to visit Buley Rockhole (quite crowded), swimming on the way at two spots in Florence Creek, and then walked back to Florence Falls via Shady Creek for another swim (very nice and big pool with waterfall). We had enough time to visit Magnetic Termite Mounds and return to our campground for evening bird feeding/watching, just after 6 pm. We were late, but so were the birds hiding for a while from hawk (?) patrolling the sky. We prepared dinner in our cabin.
Bird feeding at Batchelor Holiday Park
Day 14
We started the day with another half an hour of bird feeding/watching at 7:30 am. We then followed with four short hikes: Greenant Creek to Tajateaba Falls, Wangi Falls with swimming (huge pool with 2 waterfalls, great fun but we liked Florence Falls more) and walk to the top of the falls, Walker Creek with swimming and very impressive Tolmer Falls and Nature Trail (recommended) – the nicest walk in the area. Temp reached 40℃ for the last time on our Australian trip, but at this point we were swimming/soaking in small pool in Walker Creek. Shortly after 4 pm, we were on the way to Darwin. Our Jetstar flight to Melbourne was at 1 am next morning. That gave us enough time to watch beautiful sunset at Mindil Beach, walk through Mindil Sunset Markets, eat some street food (seafood and fruits) there and top off with Crumbed Crocodile at La Beach Fish and Chips in Cullen. Watched Cullen Bay and Marina after dark for a while.
We dropped off our car “after hours” at the airport parking lot. We drove 1066 km on this leg of our journey.
