Why this ride
On the way it passes Kakadu National Park and back through Kakadu National Park. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Barron Island and Kakadu National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 350 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 6 h 02
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Barron Island
It is country that is more water than land for half the year, a mosaic of mangroves, mudflats, paperbark swamps and open grassy plains cut by creeks that rise and fall with the monsoon.
Read the complete Barron Island write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Barron Island is where the day begins. Next is Kakadu National Park.
2. Kakadu National Park
Kakadu is big in a way that is hard to take in until you have driven in it. The national park covers nearly twenty thousand square kilometres of the Northern Territory, about the size of Wales, and holds a whole series of landscapes: sandstone escarpments, floodplains, billabongs, monsoon forest, tidal rivers and open woodland. It is one of Australia's few World Heritage Areas listed for both natural and cultural values, and it is owned by its Aboriginal traditional owners, who lease it to the government and manage it jointly.
Read the complete Kakadu National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kakadu National Park comes up about 122 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kakadu National Park.
3. Kakadu National Park
Kakadu is a vast area in the Top End of the Northern Territory, about twenty thousand square kilometres of floodplains, escarpments, billabongs and savanna woodland, and it is one of the few places in the world that has been given World Heritage status for both its natural and cultural values. The name is said to derive from Gagudju, a language spoken by Aboriginal people in the northern part of the park. Aboriginal people have lived here for tens of thousands of years, and the park is owned by its Aboriginal traditional owners and leased to the national parks service.
Read the complete Kakadu National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 175 km into the recorded legs you reach Kakadu National Park. Next is back through Kakadu National Park.
4. back through Kakadu National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kakadu National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Kakadu National Park, late in the day. Next is Barron Island.
5. Barron Island
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Barron Island write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Barron Island. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Barron Island to Kakadu National Park
Barron Island → Kakadu National Park is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kakadu National Park to Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park → Kakadu National Park is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kakadu National Park to back through Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park → back through Kakadu National Park is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kakadu National Park to Barron Island
back through Kakadu National Park → Barron Island is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.