Mamukala wetland

Mamukala wetland is a reserve off the Arnhem highway, 30 km from Jabiru. We went late afternoon for a guided walk with Victor, an aboriginal man from Kakadu.

 We wandered with a group of about 15, as Victor explained how this wetland fed and provisioned his people through the seasons, providing magpie geese and their eggs, duck, turtle, barramundi, bulbs, fibre, medicines and pigments. We saw 8 new (for us) new species of bird, including 2 kingfishers and a superb rainbow bee eater. A lovely afternoon.