Australia Day 3 - Kakadu National Park

What a horrible night! I woke up around 3am and had a hard time getting back to sleep because it was so stuffy. I had to swap my water bottle for a cold one from the fridge and was finally able to doze off.
In the morning we returned to the visitor centre. The Ubirr crossing had gone down to 30cm and there wasn't much current so we could go later in the day. We also asked about cheap rooms with AC after last nights nightmare. There were some budget accommodations south in Yellow Water for $35pp - we'd have to try that if we couldn't buy a fan for the car. Next stop was the Jabiru town centre, where we bought some lemon cordial (in the tropics you're supposed to drink 4 litres of water a day so we're getting sick of plain water) and scoured the stores for a table fan (we have power outlets in the car that we can use when we're plugged in to a powered site at night so this won't drain our car battery). The two stores that carry fans were sold out - "just sold the last one yesterday!" and the 3rd store was closed for inventory. Rats.
We drove out to Nouralangie for a 1.5km hike around the 20,000 year old shelter with Aboriginal rock art. Afterwards we decided to try our hand at 4WD and head up to Ubirr for the 1.5km hike along rock art and up to the top of Ubirr rock to see the billabong. Craig got us through all the flooded roads without any problems, though we're a bit disappointed with the Australian Wet Season - access to a lot of the nice falls is closed due to flooding but all the roads that are open are paved (and in much better repair than Canadian roads) and although many of the roads have floodway signs with markers indicating depth up to at least a meter, all the water is well below the road and most of the gullies on the sides of the road are dry. We've been told it's a really dry wet season this year. We did the hike although there were too many flies attacking our faces to properly enjoy it. The billabong was nice and green and lush. On the way back, we hit our first bird - it flew right into the car.
Since we couldn't find a fan and couldn't bear another night like last, we checked into the Yellow Water budget accommodation which ended up being a bunk bed in a private room with wonderfully cold AC - not at all bad.
After dark, the washrooms here are teeming with wildlife - there are purple lizards, tree frogs and toads, spiders, moths and ginormous dragon flies. They all seem to clear out by morning though.