This mornings highlight was a boat trip on the “Yellow Waters” to see some crocodiles. And did we see some!
This picture was taken with my mobile without using the zoom:

He was just cruising slowly alongside our boat completely undisturbed by a bunch of tourists snapping pictures.

We also saw a large variety of birds amongst them two beautiful white sea eagles. But the highlight of the day was a jabiru (black- necked storch) that caught a snake. The snake was wrapping itself around the jabiru’s beak trying to escape until the bird was able to swallow it with one swift backward tilt of the head. Just about a minute later he caught a fish. This time the jabiru was stabbing away at the fish to disect it into two parts and then swallow it as well.

On our way back to lunch we stopped at Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre. It explains a lot about the regional indigenous culture which is quite rare because Aborigines believe that knowledge must be earned and what have we done so far to deserve it?

As the Aborigines do not want you to take pictures of the exhibition I cannot post pictures here except the one for the women’s loo which I found quite nice:

After a delicious lunch at the camp site we had a change of plans as part of group had Anbangbang on their schedule. So the guide decided to “go with the flow”, his most used expression during the three day tour along with the Australian “no worries” (= that’s okay, take it easy).

Anbangbang (Noulangie Rock to the early settlers) was a good place to live for an Aboriginal tribe. It has fresh water, plenty of food and shelter. The tribe could stay all year round. However, the tribe that originally inhabited Anbangbang is extinct. Today the neighboring tribe cares for the land as it is their duty according to their traditions. The care takers decided to share the wonderful paintings on the rocks even though they are not intended for someone outside of the culture to see. As I wrote earlier knowledge had to be earned instead of to be given freely. Just imagine what this would mean to our school system!?!

However, as our guide pointed out, if these paintings depicted anything of true significance we would not be allowed to see them.

Last stop of the day was Ubirr for sunset from where we had a beautiful view of the flat lands.

We called it an early night at the Jabiru campsite as we would be getting up as 5 o’clock the next morning.