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Showing posts with label Uluru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uluru. Show all posts

17 June 2008

Trip to Northern Territory

Highlights
  • Viewing Uluru at sunset and sunrise
  • Watching the colour of Uluru changing through the day
  • Walking through the valleys around the Olgas
  • Peering over the massive cliffs at King's Canyon (best highlight of the trip)
  • Viewing the birds from a boat at Yellow Water (Kakadu)
  • A jacana with babies under its wing
  • Huge crocodiles (up to 6 metres long)
  • Watching the sunset from Ubirr in Kakadu
  • Amazing Aboriginal rock art
  • Jim Jim Falls and Twin Falls (Kakadu)
  • Lazing by the pool in the intense heat at Kakadu
  • The huge flocks of noisy Corellas
  • Swimming in the beatiful and gorgeously warm rock pools at Litchfield National Park

Uluru
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The Olgas
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King's Canyon
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Fires burning (Kakadu)
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Termite Mound (Kakadu)
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Jim Jim Falls (Kakadu)
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Crocodile (Kakadu)
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Reflections (Kakadu)
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Aborigine Rock Art (Kakadu)
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Sunrise (Kakadu)
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Huge flocks of ducks (Kakadu)
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Lilly (Kakadu)
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Litchfield National Park
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Dingo
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Brolga Crane
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Punk Rocker!
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Barking Owl
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Jacana with baby (very cute!)
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Forest Kingfisher
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Blue Winged Kookaburra .



Little Corellas (very noisy!)
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Flying tern
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Darter



Whiteplumed honeyeater
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Wedgetailed Eagle
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Spinefex Dove
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Myburghian Leaps
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Ally and me
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Funny camper van
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New Birds

Northern Fantail
Crested Bellbird
Whitethroated honeyeater
White-gaped honeyeater
Yellow-throated Miner
Mulga Parrot
Spinefex Pigeon
Brown Goshawk
Comb-crested Jacana
Australian pranticole
Pied heron
Green Pygmy-goose
Clicky