Thread by @troyhunt

I’m back! Went offline for most of the last week, pics and stories to follow 🐊

Alrighty, where do I even begin on this? It’s going to be a series of photos and vids of epic scenery so if that’s not your thing, tune out now. Otherwise… it’s off to the airport:

And that was the last we saw of a mask for a long time. The Northern Territory has been largely COVID free and felt… normal. We ended up there on “Territory Day” with @TimmyTrumpet DJ’ing on the beach with the balmy 34C winter sunset, and life was good 😊

Plus, they had an F18 ✈️

And fireworks 💥

Darwin was really just intended to be a stopover until Kakadu, but it turned out to be unexpectedly cool. Just a really chilled place with plenty of nice beach atmosphere.

But also a heap of interesting history (it was bombed in WW2), beautiful parks and nice walks

It’s also got a great restaurant prescient on the water and I’d be really happy to spend more time there in the future

Time for a little plane and off into the middle of nowhere ✈️

Bamurru Plains on the edge of Kakadu National Park. The largest in Australia at 20,000km. It’s… rustic

*Kinda* rustic. The huts don’t have a lot of walls and instead use a mesh you can see out of but not into which means you get a front row seat to all the wandering buffalo and wallabies 🦬 🦘

Ok, so really not that rustic at all. An infinity pool looking out over the floodplains with just a small edge between you and the crocs (“don’t go out there very far”, they warned)

Air boats are one of my new favourite things; they’re loud, fast and they drift sideways over things that don’t look like they should be driven on…

…but most importantly, they get you to places that could never be reached otherwise. It’s unimaginably beautiful here.

And then there’s quad bikes. And again, it’s about reaching hard to access locations. Much of it involved navigating around the termite hills which are effectively 1m high blocks of concrete.