Day 23 (June 21st, 2015): Nourlangie Rock Art site

Our last day at Cooinda,  we backtracked a bit, to check out Nourlangie (the second of Kakadu's most famous rock art sites) - which has a walking track that takes you past an ancient Aboriginal shelter, providing refuge from the weather for 20,000 years for locals who whiled away the time by decorating the walls and overhanging rock with their stories - as well as several other rock art sites.

There is also remarkable views from the top lookout, Nawurlandja.

We were lucky enough to see a Black Rock Wallaby!!!! - photo to come in next blog update.

It was on our visit to this site that we saw a notice posted outside the toilets at the carpark indicating that a rogue buffalo had been sited of late in the area surrounding and warning people to stay clear of it and to advise any sitings of the animal. Just another bit of danger to worry about!!

Close by here we also went to look at Anbangbang Billabong - a very large and very attractive billabong. There is a walk around this billabong - but the walk is fairly close to the waters edge and I was not too keen on it as there were signs advising to beware as there had been sitings recently of Saltwater crocs along the track. I have to say this framed me out a bit and we just drove around the billabong stopping at various carpark spots and checking out the billabong from the relative safety of the picnic tables. Yes that would be from atop these tables!!

I did get a nice closeup here of the very pretty Rainbow Bee-Eater - these are prevalent around the top end but are usually darting here and there always on the move - so I was lucky to get this one.

Even though it was a bit expensive for unpowered camping we actually ended up staying 3x nights at Cooinda. We did love that pool for cooling off and relaxing with a book. 

We also treated ourselves to a couple of meals at the restaurant  - as they had good food at reasonable prices. 

We did this because of the one downside with Cooinda (mind you it did not stop us staying 3x nights) and that was the prevalence of mozzies. So the less time we spent outside at our campsite In the evening the better. 

We even got out the mozzie coils here and had one going whenever we were at our campsite. Over at the pool  and the cafe/restaurant they were not around at all. 

It was on our last night at Cooinda that we could again hear howling dingoes and also what we think was probably feral pigs in the bushland close by the campground.