Darwin Aquascene Fish Feeding
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 17, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeOne of the activities I enjoyed most was feeding the fish at the Darwin Harbour at Aquascene (28 Doctors Gully Rd, Darwin). First you need to find out when the feeding times are from ‘This Week in Darwin‘ or ‘Destination Darwin’ or just simply calling them at 8981 7837. Be there about 5 minutes early [...]
Angbangbang Gallery, Nourlangie Rock Rock Art
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 16, 2009 / Posted in TravelIf you are interested in Australian Aboriginal Rock Art, there are a couple of places you can visit while in Kakadu. The first one is Ubirr where you can see well preserved x-ray style wallabies, possums, goannas, etc rock arts. I wasn’t able to go there there because I didn’t have a 4WD and you [...]
Wildlife of Australia the Northern Territory
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 16, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeBeing in Northern Territory reminds me of my East African Trip. I saw so many native Australian wildlife that is unique to this continent. Throughout my trip, I encountered many of them which you can find on my separate Northern Territory blog postings (e.g. Kakadu, Katherine, Litchfield) or by going to my wildlife category. These are some [...]
Kakadu National Park – Nawurlandja Lookout (Nourlangie Rock)
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 15, 2009 / Posted in TravelNourlangie is another region in the Kakadu National Park where you can see rock arts (painted by Aboriginals) other than Ubirr. I decided to climb up to Nawurlandja Lookout which is next to Norlangie Rock to get a view of Nourlangie sunset. It is 600 meters return and took about 30 minutes. It was quite [...]
Kakadu National Park, Spot the Frog!
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 15, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeThis really is worth a post on it’s on. So I’m bush walking at Nawurlandja lookout at Kakadu National Park (Northern Territory, Australia) and I spot something jumping, there are lots of insects, locus around but this one looks different, it was shaped like a frog! When you have a look at the photo below [...]
Kakadu National Park – Yellow Water
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 15, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeOne attraction you don’t want to miss when visiting Kakadu National Park is the cruise at Yellow Water. During dry season, you can walk to Yellow Water but I had to take a cruise to get there since it’s flooded, afterall it’s the wet season. The Yellow Water cruise went for approximately 1.5 hours. The [...]
Kakadu National Park – Wetlands and Bush Walk
3 Comments by Mai Lin / January 14, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeBecause I visited Kakadu during the wet seasons there were places that were out of bounds or required a 4wd. This is due to heavy floodings. I really wanted to visit Ubirr, Jim Jim and the Twin Falls which would have offer spectacular views. So that sucked a little but because I came during the [...]
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 13, 2009 / Posted in TravelThe Alice Springs Telegraph Station served two major services, to connect the rest of Australia to the world and to serve as a welfare home for the aboriginal children of mixed decent. The Alice Springs Telegraph Station was built in the 1872. It reduced the time it took to send a message from Australia to [...]
Royal Flying Doctor Services (RFDS)
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 13, 2009 / Posted in TravelThe Royal Flying Doctors Services is very close to the Alice Springs Reptile Park so if you’re going to see one you should definitely see the other. The RFDS’ was the first pioneer of flying doctors around Australia and the world. Some of you may have seen the RFDS TV series. The RFDS does an [...]
Alice Springs Desert Park
0 Comment by Mai Lin / January 12, 2009 / Posted in Travel, WildlifeDavid Attenborough once said about the Alice Springs Desert Park, “there is no zoo or wildlife park in the world that can match it” and with that I decided that this was a must go. We went there very early because I didn’t want to be walking around in the desert in 40 degrees heat. [...]
