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Cooinda Lodge Locals Rates Valid All-Year Round!

Cooinda is located in the Southern end of Kakadu, and is a perfect base for Yellow Water Cruises, Kakadu Adventure Tours, Yellow Water Fishing and swimming attractions such as Maguk, Jim Jim Falls, Twin Falls, Ikoymarrwa, Boulder Creek, Motor Car Falls and Kubara Pools.

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Cooinda Lodge

Cooinda lodge, in the heart of Kakadu National Park is a resort style oasis, with facilities including: fuel station, general store, 2 swimming pools, restaurants, bars, neighbouring cultural centre, tour bus stop, laundry facilities, air conditioning, airstrip and boat ramp to the adjacent home billabong.

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The Best of Kakadu, Right on Your Doorstep!

🎣 THE HUNT IS ON! 🎣

@million_dollar_fish Season 12 starts TODAY, and Kakadu is ready for you.

One barra is carrying a $1 million tag 💰
100 more are worth $10,000 each
Registration is FREE

Kakadu's billabongs and rivers are the heart of barra country. There's no better place to chase Australia's richest fish, or to celebrate if you land one.

📲 Register at milliondollarfish.com.au
📅 On now until 31 March 2027

Forget ordinary... visit Kakadu instead!
See our website for a selction of suggested itineraries from 1 - 7 Days.
No car, no worries - we have a selection of day tours from Cooinda Lodge or choose a multi-day tour departing from Darwin.
Visit: kakadutourism.com

Video thanks to @lavidadownunder [IG]

🐊 40 years ago, Kakadu stole the show. On 26 September 1986, Crocodile Dundee opened in the USA.
And suddenly, millions of people around the world were getting their first glimpse of a very different Australia - rugged, wild and spectacular, with Kakadu taking centre stage.

The film became a global phenomenon, grossing more than US$174 million in the USA alone and becoming one of the biggest films of 1986. But its impact went well beyond the box office.

Following the success of Paul Hogan’s earlier “shrimp on the barbie” campaign, Crocodile Dundee helped turn international curiosity about Australia into something much bigger. American visitors grew from 159,000 in 1984 to 282,000 in 1986, and the film inspired travellers to follow in Mick Dundee’s footsteps and experience the landscapes they had seen on screen, particularly here in the Northern Territory.

And those landscapes weren't simply a backdrop.
Gunlom. Nourlangie. Ubirr. Kakadu.

They became part of the story.

Forty years on, we’re lucky enough to have the original behind-the-scenes photographs that capture a little of what happened here in 1986 - the cameras, the crew, the actors and the extraordinary landscape that became one of the stars of the film.

And perhaps that's the most remarkable part.
The landscape is still here.
The culture is still here.
The stories are still here.

Kakadu has been home to Aboriginal people for more than 65,000 years, and today its living culture and Aboriginal experiences are an increasingly important part of the reason people come here.

So, 40 years after Crocodile Dundee introduced Kakadu to a global audience, we're celebrating more than a movie.
We're celebrating the place that helped make it unforgettable. ❤️💛🖤

Happy 40th, Crocodile Dundee.

"I genuinely can't believe more people aren't talking about this part of Australia 🤯🇦🇺"

That's the reaction after 4 days road tripping through Kakadu - ancient escarpments, endless wetlands, waterfalls and wildlife that feel like another continent altogether.

Thank you @lavidadownunder for sharing your Kakadu with us 🧡

📍 Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory

Texture like nothing else on Earth. 🐊 From armour-plated scales up close, to the full length of this croc cruising across Yellow Water Billabong. Captured by one of our guests on a Yellow Water Cruise, this is Kakadu doing what it does best: nature, wild, and completely unscripted.

📍 Yellow Water Billabong, Kakadu National Park
🔗 Book your cruise: kakadutourism.com/see-and-do/tours or see link in bio
📸 Thanks to @thelostiesontour | Yellow Water Cruise