NEWS & MEDIA
STOP PRESS! - Our tour guide Jenny
was runner-up to Willie Gordon from Cape York at the recent Australian
Indigenous Tour Guide of the Year Gnunkai Awards!
AND the new
Australian croc-horror film ROGUE was
released in Australia last November, with US and Europe soon to follow.
Produced by the same crew that gave you "Wolf Creek"; Kakadu Culture Camp was
heavily involved in the film's production in Kakadu, Arnhem Land, Katherine
Gorge and Adelaide River in late 2005. Our night wildlife tour boat, "The
Suzanne", is the boat used in
the film, and our Coordinator Andy worked as the film's Boat Wrangler while our
tour guide Fred was the Crocodile Safety Officer.
Don't be alarmed if you see our boat sink! A 'boat
double' was made in Katherine for the "croc attack scene". Look out for the DVD
movie/doco pack out soon; and then come on the boat for a croc spot in 08; we
would love to have you on board!
Check out page 6 in our photo album of Andy, Director Greg McLean and the cast while
filming.
Visit the movie's web site and see our boat in action www.roguecrocodile.com
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August 07 - Rogue World Movie Premiere The world movie premiere to Rogue will be screened at the deck chair cinema on Saturday 11 August. The movie features our boat "The Suzanne" as pictured above. |
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April 07 - We're hosting the Savannah Tour Guide School We will kick off our tourist season on 12-15 April (Yegge) 2007 when we host the Savannah Guide tour guide school. The theme is "Connecting with the Cultural Landscape" , and is sponsored by local mining company based in Jabiru, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA). Kakadu Culture Camp will be put to the test during the school and if successful, will become the first acredited Savannah Guide Site in Kakadu National Park. ERA are also sponsoring 6 Aboriginal (Bininj) tour guides for the school, with some already working at Kakadu Culture Camp. Guides from all over northern Australia will gather at Kakadu Culture Camp for a 4 day intensive that will feature expert tuition in various fields including geology, rock art interpretation and preservation, as well as traditional fire regime, crocodile management, world heritage tourism etc. A two day remote area first aid course will precede the guide school. A major focus is on Aboriginal (Bininj) cultural tourism and special tours will be conducted by Mududjurl Art Centre, Yellow Water Cruises, and of course Kakadu Culture Camp. We are also cooking for the event with ground ovens of Buffalo and Barramundi. You don't have to be a tour guide to come to the school, so if you are interested, contact our Coordinator for details, or check out www.savannah-guides.com.au.
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March 07 - Tour Groups are welcome We also cater for tour groups coming to Kakadu who wish to add an Aboriginal culture component to their itinerary. Apart from our regular tours we also offer short or long guided walks, Nourlangie Rock art tours, and 1 or 2 hour cultural experiences including spear throwing, story telling, didgeridoo and basket weaving. We can also offer safari tent accommodation, use of our well appointed camp kitchen, as well as conference facilities (meeting area, data projector, large screen, full catering etc.) for up to 60 people.
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February 07- Our Aboriginal guides keeping busy Fred Hunter, holding the spotlight in the above photo, and his sister Jenny, driving the boat and weaving below, have gone back to working as Kakadu Park Rangers during the wet. Jenny is working in the Nourlangie District while Fred has been busy with the Natural Resource Management section harpooning crocodiles in Kakadu and fitting satellites to their backs to track them. This is part of a project to see how far/where saltwater crocodiles travel. Discovery Channel have been filming the croc survey in Kakadu so you can see the boys at work when the show goes to air later this year. Johnny has been involved with the new Kakadu advertising campaign, with photos of him about to go around the world! He's also helping Andy and Doug get the new safari tents ready for the tourist season. We also employ other Bininj people at our camp. Some are also park rangers, and others like Ningoldie and Mary Blyth have their own business, West Arnhem Cultural and Tourism Services. Violet Alderson from Wurreng Cultural Walk also helps us out when we get busy. We are also trying to involve lots of Bininj people, young or old, who want to learn more about tourism.
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January 07 - New crocs in billabong for the wet season Some new estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) have come into the billabong for the wet but none more welcome than 18 new freshwater (Crocodylus johnstoni) crocodiles who hatched out of the egg (s) in November. Djarradjin Billabong is part of the Murrumburr clan estate in central Kakadu. Flood water is flowing in from Lightning Dreaming near Nourlangie Rock (Burrungui) as well as Sandy Billabong (Djalillbarr) upstream. There were 2 croc nests in the sandy banks of Djarradjin Billabong and we (and our tourists) were monitoring their progress from when the eggs were laid in July. Hopefully a few of the baby Gumugen will be the star attractions of the 2007 night wildlife boat cruise. Crocs will spread out into Kakadu's wetlands as the wet season continues and will return to the billabong when floodwaters recede in Banggereng season.
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December 06 - Rogue set to hit the screen soon Rogue,
the $30 million movie filmed partly in Kakadu last year, has received
good reviews from test screenings prior to its expected release next
February 07. The team at Kakadu Culture
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November 06 - Kakadu tourism goes national Kakadu Culture Camp guides attend the 2006 International Ecotourism Conference.
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June 06 - A song and dance for Kakadu Culture Camp Opening Kakadu’s
latest Indigenous tourism venture, the Kakadu Culture Camp, was
officially opened last Friday 26 May 2006, in a colourful ceremony by
The Chief Minister, the Hon. Clare Martin MLA.
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