From Anbangbang billabong we headed south west to join a cruise on Yellow Water, a popular spot on the tour bus trail, which is how most visitors seem to experience Kakadu. I'm not sure what's worse, missing the 4WD tracks and the canoeing up Katherine gorge because you're travelling with small children or missing it because you're being herded around on a bus with other people wearing exactly the same safari outfit (you know, khaki shorts and neckerchiefs in aboriginal fabric (both items made in China)).
Anyway, we arrived just ahead of the tour bus and managed to get Ella to fall asleep by walking her five times around the car park, so we got the best seats on the boat and the best view to go with it.
The boat itself was called Old Lady, which was a bit of a concern initially, given my tendency to think overtime and imagine a rickety old boat falling to bits and delivering us into the water like a human take-away, but no, it had been named after a tribal elder (since passed away) who had carried the 2000 Olympic torch across Kakadu on its way to the site of the Sydney games, and she'd been sitting on this boat as she did so.
And once we'd cleared that up we floated across Yellow Water billabong and downstream along the South Alligator River in search of the wildlife for an hour and a half.
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