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Wetlands, Kakadu National Park, NT

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As part of our visit to Kakadu National Park last year, our tour group did a Wetlands Cruise on the Yellow Water Billabong.  This was my favourite part of the entire trip - the scenery and wildlife were just breathtakingly beautiful, and it is what I imagined when I thought of Kakadu National Park. The tour started with a road trip from Darwin.  At our first rest stop, we saw this albino buffalo: It was feeding time, so this buffalo was very pre-occupied with his breakfast. We also saw this massive crocodile, which some of our tour group thought was not real, but believe me, I think this dude was alive and just waiting for someone to come in and test their theory: After a visit to the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre, we headed out to our wetlands cruise by Yellow Water Cruises on these boats: It was a stunning day, with sunshine, blue skies, and dark blue water: There was a diverse range of birdlife at the billabong.  First up was a magp