It’s the Dry, but there’s still some water

On our second day, we started by visiting what’s known as the Nourlangie Rock Art site (someone got the names of two sites mixed up, so they’re gradually trying to rename them back to the correct ones). The rock art includes a couple of depictions of the lighting man (top right). This one includes his wife and is used to teach the story.

There were a lot of other rock art pictures, including this one of ceremonies.

The rock outcrop where these were located is really high an has some really gorgeous colours.

Next we visited the Warradjan Cultural Centre. It was a wonderful place, but you’re not supposed to take photos inside, so you’ll have to be satisfied with the drawings of the seasons outside.

The Yellow Water billabong was our next stop, where we glided through the billabong and part of the South Alligator River looking at the wetlands and the birds and other animals. 

We saw all four types of egrets (the fourth was introduced, with water buffalo), three are in this photo 

while the greater egret entertained us trying to eat a catfish with an ibis looking on.

There were lots of whistling ducks, of both species.

Both male and female darter. The female is next to the magpie goose.

There were adult and juvenile Jesus birds.

And quite a number of salt water crocodiles.

We even saw some water buffalo in the distance.

Finally, we visited Leilyn (Edith Falls) and some people had a swim.