The Big One

A vast chaotic, untamed wilderness - no, not Tony Abbott's brain but Kakadu National Park.
20 000 sq kilometers, 3 million Magpie Geese, 10 000 species of insects, but we located only two proper espresso machines, now, that's what we call remote!
We decided we better "do" Kakadu before the Wet closes in and our little hybrid car gets grounded. As it was, we decided to stick to the bitumen, and the attractions accessible without a 4wheel drive easily filled a week-end.
We climbed escarpments that gave us vistas into Arnhem Land, visited galleries with fascinating XRay type ochre paintings. May be it was that uranium in the rocks that gave the locals XRay vision.
A billabong cruise eased off the heat of the day and gave us the chance to watch hundred of bird species : sea eagles, jabiru, kites, Pygmy geese, magpie geese.
It as well got us to as close and personnel as we would ever want to be with crocs. By the way, that croc in the photo is not made of plastic, it dived in the water a couple of metres from our boat when it got tired of posing for us.
Did you know the magpie goose lives in a menage a trois : one male, one older female, one younger female, which raises all sorts of questions : what happens to the unattached males, do they hang around in bachelor groups, drink beer and tell dirty jokes (as most men who don't get any real sex do)? Who chooses who in the menage a trois? Does the older female get jealous of the younger, prettier one? When the older female dies, does the male choose a new young female and the old young one becomes the older female? Cecile REALLY wants an answer to these questions. David thinks it is a very reasonable domestic arrangement and the less questions asked the better.