East Alligator

• Do you remember that Tom and the whale swum into the, what was it, the, um, the river up there? Was it the Mary River? The big whale? That was the East Alligator River.

  Bag a Barra — 15 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Majila Creek dropped to a low enough level that we can get across to Kale's crossing in the East Alligator in the last week as well, which is pretty exciting.

  Bag a Barra — 8 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So it's for people that just for people that don't know, because we broadcast all over Australia, East Alligator River, where is that? Yeah, we're actually on the South Alligator River at the moment.

  Bag a Barra — 1 May 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And it is a cast of almost 1000s today, Captain Woody, safely back from East Alligator. Rocky Edwards from down the road at the shop.

  Fishing on Arvos — April 2026 Fishing on Arvos

• So we just go and say, Darwin, we go on Adelaide River, Mary River, south, west, or west, south, East Alligator, and then mini, mini.

  Guys in the Gulf — Ep 046 Guys in the Gulf

• And Dunny was a ranger out at East Alligator for a fair few years, actually. And, you know, we'd fly up for a couple weeks or a week here and there and have a bit of a crack.

  NextGen North #63 — Glenn Watt NextGen North

• How good is it? I might just duck out the kakane to the East Alligator and have a bit of a crack.

  Bag a Barra — 16 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've fished at home Billabong and Mardigal Billabong yesterday, which is directly out the back of the resort there, and the East Alligator at Kale's crossing the day before.

  Bag a Barra — 17 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• The East Alligator isn't the most densely populated, but at those particular times, all the crocs in the area do group up together, which is unusual.

  Bag a Barra — 1 August 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I've just done a couple of half day trips um out in Kakadu, one on the East Alligator, uh, not, uh, yesterday afternoon where I think we probably boated about 20 odd barra, mostly undersized last night, but a couple of nice ones in there, one big Saratoga.

  Bag a Barra — 13 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, but yeah, it's absolutely spectacular country, of course, and we don't get much of that over this way, um, as you know, apart from the East Alligator, river's about the only place where we got a bit of rock and escarpment country, and um, yeah, we've spent a couple of days there lately as well, which is good.

  Bag a Barra — 6 June 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And we, you know, we've been fishing the south alligator up until recently, and actually, when I spoke to you last over the Easter weekend was just when we could start pushing across the Majila Creek, to head to the East Alligator River as well.

  Bag a Barra — 25 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, but hopefully in a couple of weeks, as this water drops, that'll become an option again, and in the top of the, uh, the East Alligator, and all those crocs will be bunched up back at Kale's Crossing as well, and, you know, that's obviously a big major attraction out here as well.

  Bag a Barra — 18 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And, um, but of course, there's huge demand in, in Kakado, especially that sort of East Alligator, upper system in amongst that escarpment country, and, um, you know, to be able to provide some long-lasting memories for some families, especially, uh, through a half day offering, that's what we're keen to do.

  Bag a Barra — 21 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I, I, I'm pumped, and yeah, I mean, we're getting out to one of the most well-known um crocodile viewing areas in, in Kakadu there at the East Alligator and and try and catch a few of those barra before the crocs get them.

  Bag a Barra — 7 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I took a video of some crocodiles, uh, doing some fishing on the East Alligator River with their little fingers up, and that's a real sign, uh, the marlet runs happening, which is a, a build-up thing as well, and um, our winds are changing and stuff.

  Bag a Barra — 8 September 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's the, um, it's, there's a natural rock bar there on the East Alligator River. It's in the sort of upper reaches, I suppose.

  Bag a Barra — 21 July 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I think we've got a couple of 65s and some, some nice Saratoga and then next day was East Alligator fresh water up in the escarpment country and around all the beautiful clean sandbars.

  Bag a Barra — 23 June 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So we went to both the major rivers, which is the East Alligator and the South Alligator. South Alligator is the one that you cross over, sort of on the way into Kakadu, um, which you were driven over, Big Muddy River, and um, yeah, it fished really well.

  Bag a Barra — 21 April 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But yeah, the East Alligator, you can't even get into it at the moment because there's a couple of creek crossings that are, um, sort of that um, cut it off from the main road that are running at about metre and a half or metre.

  Bag a Barra — 17 March 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Any of those crossing, so you've got the um, the Daly River one, the uh, the Sampan Cricket, um, Shady Camp is also a really famous one and the um, the East Alligator.

  Bag a Barra — 3 March 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• In fact, that sort of stuff will get better and better until the water all disappears as the bait builds up official beer out there and particularly those Kakadu pole that's out around the south alligator and East Alligator, tend to fish really well right through this time of year.

  Bag a Barra — 19 February 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It may have been a different story if they'd have got stranded on a mud bank, which the East Alligator river is notoriously shallow and treacherous.

  Bag a Barra — 9 October 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

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