Darwin to Bamurru Plains

June 6-9-

The Ghan trip was both exciting and a nice rest from our fast paced travels of the previous couple of weeks.  We all would have loved another night on the train but we did not realize what our next adventure had in store! We spent one night in Darwin and headed to Bamurru Plains, the floodplains of the Mary River just on the western border of Kakadu National Park.  This remote outback camp was our home for the next 4 glorious nights, including my birthday:).
WARNING: There are 25+ photos with this post- (and many more I want to share!)

Darwin-
No swimming on any beaches in this town- CROCODILES!

Frontier Air flew us to the dirt landing strip of Bamurru

The boys cabin-
the 3 front walls are netted for a 270 degree view!!

Wild brumbies-
horses "never touched by a human hand"

Water Buffalo and her calf of about 3 days old

Buffalo cooling in the river

View of the morning-water buffalo, wallabies, egrets,  magpie geese, termite mounds

Our first air boat safari

Bird fishing

Ross on the didgeridoo

Kingfisher

3 meter long croc sunning

Magpie geese in flight-
Bamurru is the aboriginal name for this bird

Playing "footie" on the plains

Climbing the termite mounds

"Sundowner" on the plains after an afternoon safari drive-
Logan taught the boys how to crack a whip like a true drover

I would like to say the crocs were far from camp...
but they were close by...
this one was such a regular the camp staff named him Brad

Grove of Paperbark (Melaleuca) trees

Air boat fun!

Cooling off in the pool

The graceful Jabiru bird at rest

And in flight - it takes a bit to get going

Rainbow beeeater on the prowl.  You can hear it's beak snap

My birthday night

The chef and the boys surprised me with a firecracker cake!

Time to go...

I just THOUGHT the seaplane was small-
this was the tiniest plane I have even been on in my life...just a tiny bit unnerving.