Katherine District

We spent a day mooching around Katherine. The Hot Springs, a look around the lower level of the river, a visit to the museum and the Cycad Gardens. All Tourist stuff, just lolly gagging and doing nothing much at all, then a dip in the pool and that was the day gone.
Today we will go to the Cutta Cutta caves, then who knows?
Pic shows Kathy in the Cycad gardens.

Katherine Gorge

We took the three gorges tour of the Gorge. The Katherine Gorge is an amazing place, with the spectacular cliff faces rising from the water in the Katherine River. The Guide gave us an explanation of the area and its significance to the aboriginal people. Total time was about 4 hours, 57 photographs, 40 minutes of video and three bottles of water, but worth the effort. We even walked up to the top of the Gorge to the look-out.Very steep climb up rocky steps. Kathy said it was puff factor going up, fear factor coming down.
Today we will be looking around Katherine, tomorrow the Cutta Cutta caves, after that, we don't know.

Katherine

We spent last night at Daly Waters, here is us looking through the Australia shaped hole in the wall of the Tourist Trap.

Something strange is going on with the Xtrail. Every time we tow the van the fuel consumption is about 15 l per 100Km, the last two days it has been 12 l per 100km. Don't know what caused the 20% improvement, but I hope it keeps it up.

The good news is we found a shop in Katherine that sold us a universal charger for the video camera battery. We can resume videos!.

Tomorrow we have booked a tour of the Katherine Gorge, so the Xtrail gets a day off too.

Next stop is-----we don't know. Maybe Kununurra, maybe Kakadu, maybe we stay here for a while, because it is warm. Check the blog later.

Tennant Creek

We left Wycliffe Well while the police were investigating the indigenous party last night. It seems they got out of hand over a tribal dispute about a young girl.
We are in Tennant Creek, after a day of stopping at all the tourist attractions. The Devils Marbles were spectacular, the tour of the Battery Hill mine was very entertaining and we went to the Telegraph Station and the Pebbles. A beer in the Caravan Park pub and a glass of red with dinner and we have had enough for one day.
Good news is I brought my video camera and a charger. The bad news is the charger was for the other video camera that I left home. When the batteries run out, the video stops.

Wycliffe Well

We are in the tropics. At about 10 am on 25 July we passed the Tropic of Capricorn, about 30Km north of Alice Springs. We stop at every tourist site on the road, Ryans Well, Aileron Big man, and all the photo stops. When we got to Wycliffe Well the caravan park looked good so we stopped. Great park with a lake, wildlife and Alians theme, (Wycliff is known for the UFO sightings). The local indigenous brothers were having a party and got a bit loud, but they calmed down by dark.Big decisions coming up tomorrow, do we turn right and go to Queensland, or keep heading north to Mataranka, Katherine and Kakado. Most expensive fuel so far was $2.11 per litre at Ti Tree.

The adventure begins

The first night was Port Germain, after a late start. We got to Cadney Station last night, but the phones did not work. Kathy had to work so as soon as we got to Marla, and the phones worked, she had to log on. Pic shows the view from the Ranges View lookout north of Port Agusta. Got to go, Kathy need the internet

Two days to go

We are preparing for the next trip away. Our original plans for overseas fell through because we left things too late, so we are heading north until it gets warm and then deciding what to do and where to go then.

Pic shows the tapestry cushions Kathy did for the Golden Retriever National show, obedience and Gundog working test.

Lots of work, but the winners were pleased to get them.