Featured in Famous Crocodile Dundee Film!
1980s hit movie was filmed in Kakadu National Park, Mick and Sue then head into the bush for their first night of adventure. This takes them to Angbangbang Billabong, where Mick is given the opportunity to demonstrate his bush skills, including a clever ruse where he pretends to shave with his massive sharp bladed knife.
‘Mick’s country’ includes spectacular footage of Angbanglang Billabong where crocodiles and birdlife are featured, along with the very distinctive Nourlangie Rock (Burrungkuy) in the background.
Start the walk from same carpark as Nourlangie (Burrungkuy) rock art site
Nourlangie is one of the prime cultural tourism sites in Kakadu, home to important Aboriginal rock-art “galleries”. It is estimated that Aboriginal people have been using this site for over 60,000 years. The entire area is archaeologically important, as it is believed that this is where the earliest tropical settlement of Australia occurred. The people in this area developed grinding stones for crushing seeds and later used the grinding stones to crush ochre for painting.
Nourlangie Rock and surrounding early art sites are among the reasons Kakadu National Park was made a World Heritage Site. The richness of the ecosystems here is another reason for protecting the area.
Wildlife to spot along the way
Take your binoculars, camera or sketch book with you – this billabong hosts magpie geese, green pygmy geese, egrets, comb-crested jacanas, cormorants, corellas and red-tailed black cockatoos, just to name a few!
The fringing woodlands are home to more species of plants and animals than any other Kakadu habitat. In the early mornings and evenings, agile wallabies move out of the woodlands to graze beneath the paperbark trees by the billabong.
Once you’re finished, take a seat at one of the many picnic tables and enjoy a lazy lunch before heading to Nawurlandja lookout.
