I left Darwin the next day on my Kakadu and Arnhemland adventure. The first 3 days were spent in Kakadu on a 4WD adventure tour.

It was a bit of a haul from Darwin into Kakadu. Our destination for the morning was Nourlangie.

It gave me a taste of the Top End landscape – dry woodland against massive sandstone escarpments.

It is the home of the Lightning Man, and the locals really did get it right, because this place does get the most lightning strikes in country!

Again, like back at Newnes, the paintings were located under massive overhangs that offer protection during the wet. They are done in the x-ray style that’s typical of the Top End – very different from the dot paintings from the desert areas.