Early in the morning we fly to Darwin and are already at the rental agency before noon. We especially took the newer ones, well, before we could drive off, a lock had to be changed, the rear view camera is now Sylvia's, because the internal one doesn't work and while driving we still notice that a rubber seal flutters in the wind, but otherwise everything is fine...
First we go shopping, the shopping trolley is quite full, where are we supposed to stow it all? With good will everything is stowed and the journey can begin. Luckily, Markus has had the opportunity to drive the delivery vehicles at Wüst several times, so driving the camper is not difficult for him and driving on the left is no longer an issue.
We drive only a short distance to our first site in the Oasis Campground, where we can familiarise ourselves with the camping and the facilities, the powerd site has electricity and water so we are supplied with everything. First we have spaghetti bolognese, which was good, because somehow we had missed lunch. The wine was delicious and we went to bed early.
After breakfast we set off for the Kakadu National Park. Our destination is the Ubirr area, on the way we visit the Mamakula Wettlands. The expanses here are impressive, far and wide no people. A look at the statistics shows why! In Switzerland there are 216 people per km2, in the Northern Territory there are just 0.16 people per km2, that is just 1 % of the population of Australia.
Mamukala Wetlands
We continue to the region of Ubirr, where we will also spend the night. Once again, there is a lot of straight road.
