{"id":5954,"date":"2017-06-04T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T20:35:18","slug":"corroboree-billabong-and-sweets-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Corroboree Billabong and Sweets Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Doc has spent the last 2 days out on tours, to Sweets Lagoon and Corroboree Billabong (Mary River Floodplain). The Patrol had been serviced and it was time to see the wetlands by plane and boat (to avoid the mud and crocs by doing it on land).<\/p>\n

On paper, Outback Floatplanes Adventures trip to Sweet Lagoon looked the better option. It had a floatplane flight, airboat (flat bottom boat driven by a V8 using a propeller), helicopter flight and cruise in a flat bottom boat.<\/p>\n

Corroboree Billabong was the Wildlands Ultimate Tour consisting of an airboat and flat bottom boat tour. The BBC has filmed twice here. This billabong has the highest concentration of crocs in the world. The billabong is fed by the massive Mary River Floodplain. The wildlife has to be be seen to be believed. Thousands and thousands of birds, fish a plenty and lots of top line predators like crocs and White Bellied Sea Eagles. The Doc even got to eat some bush tucker from the Sacred Lotus Lily and another flower.<\/p>\n

Hands down Corroboree Billabong was better and around 1\/3 the cost of the Outback Floatplanes Adventure. Sweet lagoon was expensive at $800 [2017] for what it was, a little bit of the four things from around 8.30am to midday. They even charge a credit fee of 1.5%, unlike Wildlands. As an experienced Outback Traveller The Doc would not do it again, but would return to Corroboree Billabong in a heart beat, and that cost only $240 for both.<\/p>\n

The Doc was left with the feeling Sweet Lagoon was all about maximising bums on seats and putting the tourist thorough the production line. This is the first time The Doc felt this on his trips. It was not the people, but the production line process.<\/p>\n

The auxiliary battery in the Patrol failed on Saturday morning so The Doc has extended his stay in Darwin 2 days to wait for the replacement. A bit lucky the battery failed while the The Doc was in Darwin rather than in the Outback. The Doc has never seen a battery fail so fast, almost no warning signs (The Doc knew there was an issue Friday, but Saturday morning confirmed the failure). The demands of the hot weather was too much.<\/p>\n

This is a sample of the floodplain in and around Mary River and Kakadu.<\/p>\n

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Corroboree Billbong, water, flowers crocs and birds, all in abundance.<\/p>\n

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The Doc has spent the last 2 days out on tours, to Sweets Lagoon and Corroboree Billabong (Mary River Floodplain). The Patrol had been serviced and it was time to see the wetlands by plane and boat (to avoid the mud and crocs by doing it on land). On paper, Outback Floatplanes Adventures trip to … Continue reading Corroboree Billabong and Sweets Lagoon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,49,37,130,48,42,34,50,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-coastal","category-flowers","category-kakadu-nt","category-lakes","category-landscape","category-plant","category-rivercreeks","category-wildflowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-1y2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}