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I found out that my nana calls Kakadu, KakaDON'T. As in, dont go, too many mozzies. Good one Nana.

We bought an esky and a fly screen which our company Travel Wheels (never ever use them!) will reimburse us for. Really the nature in Kakadu is AMAZING and if you are K Brinsden or G szabat you would LOVE IT. I loved it too. It was unlike anything else. We woke up at sparrows fart this morning to go on the Yellow Waters Billabong cruise and watched the sunrise over the Billabong. We saw hundreds of birds, we saw crocs, snakes (a golden tree snake even i had to admit was pretty, and im not really a snake fan as you know) and beautiful plant life. We saw a huge Jabiru and a little Jesus bird and its teeny tiny babies! we had to pay like $100 each but it was worth it considering that included full hot buffet breakfast. My fathers daughter, I was so happy to be eating and ate my breakfast and lunch worth!!

Seriously I kid you not there were MILLIONS of mozzies out where we camped. When you woke up in the night the sound you heard was of the bush buzzing. Loudly. There were about 20 that made it into our fly screen and even though we were wearing 80% DEET Bushmans we got a few bites or two. A 3am phernegan each knocked us out till we had to be up at 5:45 for the sunrise tour.

We then got the hell out of Kakadu. Now we are camped at Edith Falls which are beautiful. They look classic NT, waterfalls ad swimming holes and sheer red rock faces. We went for a 1.6k walk to a beautiful waterhole and had a dip. It was so refreshing and delicious and beautiful. Maybe, in true Carnes fashion, every holiday needs that first 'everything is going wrong this is crap let's go home' week that makes you truly appreciate the rest. It's a twisted type of holiday niceness.