G’day all,
The focus of today was to travel to Katherine, some 513 klms down the Victoria Highway from Kununurra.
We left the caravan park (late for us) at 9:30am after saying our goodbyes to Jeff, Tamara & Banjo. They were waiting in Kununurra to have their car fixed after the air conditioning pipes fractured on the Gibb River Road. We hope to catch them in Katherine on Tuesday or Litchfield NP later in the week.
Highlights of the drive was the scenery between Timber Creek and Victoria River as the highway skirts past the Gregory NP and alongside the Victoria River. This is stunning gorge country and a place worth a visit at another time. We are fast running out of time to spend in the Northern Territory so with a little disappointment kept moving.
We had lunch at Victoria River and arrived in Katherine at 4:00pm or at least we thought 4:00pm. We had neglected the change in time zones and were still operating on WA time. As such we found it amazing that the visitors centre was closed when it was scheduled to stay open until 5:00pm. We didn’t work out the time difference until we were back on the road heading to a rest area 15 klm West of town for the night.
We had planned to book in the dawn river cruise on the Katherine/Nitmiluk Gorge for Fathers Day and were disappointed to miss out especially since we thought the visitors centre was unfairly closed!!
We arrived at the rest area after some dinner in Katherine and settled in for the night.
Bushman Bud…Enjoying Australia