Kakadu is one of Australia’s most spectacular wilderness areas, located in the Northern Territory. It is a vast landscape of sandstone escarpments, monsoon forests, rivers, billabongs, and immense seasonal wetlands. The park is also a living cultural landscape, with Aboriginal people having lived there continuously for more than 50,000 years. The Nadab Floodplain is one of Kakadu’s most iconic scenes.
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The floodplain changes dramatically through the year:
Wet Season (roughly November–April) Heavy tropical rains spread water across hundreds of square kilometers. Rivers overflow, and the landscape becomes a vast mosaic of open water and floating vegetation. Millions of waterbirds use these wetlands, making them among the most important in Australia.
Dry Season (roughly May–October) The water slowly retreats into billabongs and channels. Wildlife concentrates around the remaining water, creating exceptional opportunities for photography and birdwatching. Large saltwater crocodiles, magpie geese, jabirus, egrets, and countless other species can often be seen. The view from Ubirr over the Nadab Floodplain is the defining image of Kakadu—a sweeping wetland wilderness where the landscape appears almost unchanged from thousands of years ago. The floodplain’s abundance of fish, birds, and other food sources is one reason Aboriginal people camped and created rock art at Ubirr for millennia.
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These images were taken during my travels down under in the mid-1990s. I was lucky enough to be transferred to Brisbane, Australia, for almost 2 years, and during that time, I was able to see quite a bit of Australia and some surrounding countries. This, however, was before digital cameras hit the mainstream, so it was good old Kodak Gold film. Old school! The guy pictured is my buddy Dave Henderson; we traversed quite a bit of Australia together while we were there.
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