5th August 2014 Kakadu National Park

Today we are leaving the park with not a lot planned, fuel at Jabaru, we didn't go to the bakery, amazing.
On the way out toward Darwin we stopped at a visitor centre that was named Window to the Wetlands, it was lots of displays and informatin about plants and animals of the wetlands.
June and Neville said goodbye here as they were going into Darwincand we were going south, we had thought of going into fog dam together but decided that it would be similar to what we had seen on the cruise.
After we left Merv said he was hungry and wanted a sandwich so I said we might as well go into fog dam to get off the road, it was only 3km down the road from where we were.
I was surprised when we arrived it had certainly changed since I saw it 30 years ago, there was a sign that said the dam wall was closed to pedestrians due to a large saltwater crocodile, who takes any notice of signs? We walked along the dam after lunch, approx 1km, and we did see lots of birds like we saw on the cruise but there was 2 spoonbill very close feeding, they feed swinging their beaks through the water just like flamingo.
There was very large areas of where pigs had been, I thought it was a bigger risk to come face to face with a pack pf pigs than a croc coming up on the wall.
We were 2/3 of the way back when a ranger came along, a very nice aborigine, he said that there was 2 signs and that we shouldn't walk there, he didn't know we were on our way back.
The ranger said that the croc was a 4 1/2 metre,  they had a trap set for him, he also said there was a smaller one that usually lays on the road but he hadn't seen it for a couple if weeks, the big one probably ate it, they are territorial,  the water was low enough to be safe for us to walk back. I asked about the pigs he said there are heaps there every morning.
We travelled to Adelaide River and booked into the caravan park.