Gimbat District/ SouthWest Kakadu Part III

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Tourism and Conservation
The tourist industry started to develop here in the mid 1950s. Visitors used mining tracks around the South Alligator River to get to the rivers, creeks and waterfalls. With buffalo to see and barramundi to catch this area became one of the Northern Territory's most popular visitor destinations by the 1960s. Gunlom was then known as UDP Falls because it was the early camp site of the Uranium Development and Prospecting Company. The mining company built a cricket pitch here in 1956. In 1972 the falls were included in a 300 acre Recreation Reserve managed by the Northern Territory Reserves Board. From the 1970s, resource enquiries recommended that a national park be created to protect the natural and cultural values of the upper South Alligator River. This southern region was added progressively to Kakadu National Park in 1987 and 1992.
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Distichostemon hispidulus
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Gardenia fucata Plum Tree Creek Escarpment
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Helicteres sp. Plum Tree Creek
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Plum Tree Creek West plateau Vista
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Plum Tree Creek West Escarpment Vista
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Rapanea benthamiana
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Red Bush Apple Syzygium suborbiculare
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Red-backed Fairy-wren Malurus melanocephalus female
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Red-browed Pardalote Pardalotus rubricatus
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Red-headed Honeyeater Myzomela erythrocephala
feeding on
Grevillea pteridiflolia
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Striped Rainbow Skink Carlia munda
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Saint Andrew's Cross Spider Argiope keyserlingi
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Scaevola taccada
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Scarlet Gum Eucalyptus phoenicea dried seed pods
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Scarlet Pigmyfly Nannophya paulsoni
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Silver-leaved Paperbark Melaleuca argentea
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Striped Rainbow Skink Carlia munda
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Striped Rainbow Skink Carlia munda
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Stylidium multiscapum
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Swamp Bloodwood Eucalyptus ptychocarpa
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Terminalia erythrocarpa
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Three-spined Rainbow Skink Carlia triacantha
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Two-lined Dragon Diporiphora bilineata
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