21/05/2026
🌕 The sky above Kakadu has its own kind of magic and this month, it’s quietly putting on a show.
We begin in Yekke, the cool, dry season when the floodplains begin to pull back and the air softens after the heat. Over these clear nights, a full moon rose above the wetlands, its light stretching across still water and paperbark silhouettes.
As the month turns, a second full moon will arrive - a rare lunar rhythm within the same season. In many places this is called a “Blue Moon,” but here it is simply another turning of light across Yekke skies, rising over the billabong as the land settles deeper into the dry.
Then, as the season shifts toward Wurrkeng, the coolest and most delicate part of the year, the next full moon rises low on the horizon. The nights are crisper now, the wetlands quiet, and the moon’s glow lingers longer in the cooler air - soft, steady, and unhurried as it climbs above Kakadu’s northern Australian winter waters.
These full moons arrive as micromoon phases - when the Moon is near the farthest point in its orbit from Earth. The effect is subtle: a slightly smaller presence, a gentler brightness, as if the sky itself is holding space rather than declaring it.
There’s no better place to witness it than from the clear open skies of Kakadu National Park.
Image thanks to Tourism & Events NT/Sean Scott
