{"id":258,"date":"2012-05-09T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/?p=258"},"modified":"2012-05-09T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:16:35","slug":"cloud-9-day-2-barramundi-gorge-and-ubirr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/cloud-9-day-2-barramundi-gorge-and-ubirr\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud 9 &#8211; Day 2, Barramundi Gorge and Ubirr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most days during my journey, we woke up early , then breakfast. Once breakfast was finished, the camp was quickly demolished then back to our large 4 \u00d7 4 for few hours of driving (one easily loses track of time as distances are so great in Australia that any journey takes at least few hours).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_260\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"size-large wp-image-260\" title=\"Clearing along the way\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5202-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Clearing along the way\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5202-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5202-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clearing along the way<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_261\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"size-large wp-image-261\" title=\"A wild dingo\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5209-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A wild dingo\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5209-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5209-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wild dingo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first stop of the day was Barramundi Gorge. The road getting there can be used by a simple car during the dry season. After the carpark, the path to get there is 2 kilometers walking through the Australian bush.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5210.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"size-large wp-image-262\" title=\"Sign before accessing Barramundi Gorge\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5210-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Sign before accessing Barramundi Gorge\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5210-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5210-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign before accessing Barramundi Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The trail we took, lead us to the top of Barramundi Gorge. It began with wooden walkways through lush vegetation. After some minutes, the vegetation thinned to make room for the rocks and a few minutes after, we arrived at the summit. There are small interconnected pools among the rocks that flow into a small lake. After all tiresome bush walking, the water came in refreshing indeed. The guide is a regular here and showed us a little secret passage under water connecting two pools.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_263\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5238.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"size-large wp-image-263\" title=\"Stream giving birth to the waterfall\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5238-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Stream giving birth to the waterfall\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5238-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5238-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stream giving birth to the waterfall<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_264\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5244.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"size-large wp-image-264\" title=\"The lake seen from above\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5244-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The lake seen from above\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5244-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5244-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lake seen from above<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once all photos were taken from the magnificent view, we took the path in reverse to go to the lake level. The road followed the river was formed by the lake. Gradually as we approached the lake, the vegetation became scarcer and the sun got really hot (wearing a hat or cap is more than recommended). After several minutes of effort, we were rewarded with the lake of Barramundi Gorge.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_265\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"size-large wp-image-265\" title=\"On the way to the lake\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5264-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"On the way to the lake\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5264-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5264-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the way to the lake<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_266\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"size-large wp-image-266\" title=\"Barramundi Gorge\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5274-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Barramundi Gorge\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5274-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5274-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barramundi Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the afternoon, we headed to Ubirr. Along the way we encountered some impressive termite nests (up to 4 meters high).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_267\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5287.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"size-large wp-image-267\" title=\"Termite mount\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5287-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Termite mount\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5287-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5287.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Termite mount<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ubirr is a rock formation overlooking a vast plain. The place was inhabited by Aborigines for many years as evidenced by many old paintings. The paintings visible today covered many layers of earlier paintings, the aborigines would just redraw on top to tell another story.\u00a0 The marked path from the parking lot lead us to various &#8216;art galleries&#8217; and we stopped in front of the last one where our guide told us the story represented and explained us that this was one of the means of transmitting knowledge to children.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_268\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5293.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"size-large wp-image-268\" title=\"A hunter\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5293-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A hunter\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5293-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5293-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A hunter<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_269\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"size-large wp-image-269\" title=\"A fish\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5294-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A fish\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5294-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5294-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The path ended by climbing over the rocks. Once on top we had a wonderful view over a vast floodplain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_270\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSCN5308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"size-large wp-image-270\" title=\"Arnhem Land floodplain\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5308-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Arnhem Land floodplain\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5308-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/03\/DSCN5308-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnhem Land floodplain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the evening we stopped at a camp in Jabiru, the only &#8220;town&#8221; of Kakadu National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most days during my journey, we woke up early , then breakfast. Once breakfast was finished, the camp was quickly demolished then back to our large 4 \u00d7 4 for few hours of driving (one easily loses track of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/cloud-9-day-2-barramundi-gorge-and-ubirr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-northern-territory","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}