We had a full day in Katherine and we spent it on the Gorge cruise thru gorges 1 and 2 of the Nitmiluk National Park and then a dip in the Katherine Hot Springs. Nitmiluk is aboriginal for “Cicada Land” and there are parts of the gorge that aboriginals will not go themselves but they do allow others to visit.

It was a interesting cruise, very different to the ones in Kununurra. We had to walk between the two gorges and this walk was very interesting as it allowed us to see aboriginal drawings on the rock faces that had been dated at 8,000 years old.

We finished the day off with a dip in the Hot Springs, which was very refreshing. It was not as hot as I thought it would be but still rather warm if you compared it to the pool in the park. We were told that because it was the dry season resulting in less water flow the temperature was not as warm.

Heading off to Darwin tomorrow. We are going to stay there for a week and use it as a base, whilst we get the Cruiser and Van serviced. We are basically half way thru our trip, both distance and time wise, so we’ll get both the van and car ready for the second half of our trip. We have covered just on 15,000 km’s so far, so my estimate of 30,000 will be pretty close.

Whilst we are enjoying warm and sunny weather and basically free of COVID restrictions, we forget about what our family and friends are going thru back home in Melbourne. So we are thinking of you all, please follow the guidelines so you don’t contract it and hopefully some sense of normality is not too far away.