I know it has been ages since we blogged, we have been really slack, but i suppose that's what holidays are all about!
So, after Darwin we went back to Katherine for a few days to spend time with some very good friends that were travelling from Tassie. It was stinking hot (about 40 every day) and starting to get really humid. We had Bbq's, drank wine, ate gourmet cheeses and visited some amazing places.
We did a spectacular sunrise riverboat tour on the Nitmiluk Gorge, we we got fed a hot breakfast, saw Aboriginal Art 30 meters up a cliff, you see the river can rise up to 60m in wet season. When we did the tour it was dry season, and the water was so low we had to catch 2 boats as we had to walk between the gorges, and the skipper was telling us that in dry season you can do the normally 2 hour tour in 15mins, as the water rushes over the rocks that we had to walk over. The gorge is spectacular, beautiful birdlife, foliage & even a croc or 2 floating around.
We also swam in the thermal pools again, and in the waterfalls and rock pools of Edith falls, which was a 40 minute uphill walk (rocky), and in 36 degrees Alex climbed that hill like a rock wallaby, we were so proud of him (and then he didn't like to water because it was 'too cold) ha ha.
The van park we stayed at this time was pretty scungy, the pool was slimy and the bathrooms were average and full of mozzies, nothing looked like it had been tended to for years, but there was one cool thing, we had a fresh water croc (that we named Colin) that came out of the river every night to say hi! Remembering the river was maximum 100m from our van that was pretty cool!
We had a really lovely time with our beautiful friends, thanks for hanging with us, guys :)
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