So we finally crossed into the Northern Territory, home of the places we are both most looking forward to (Kakadu, Litchfield, Nitmiluk...plus some huge rock down in the centre...). With our clocks now skipping forward 1.5 hours, we made the 500km trip to the Territory's third largest town, Katherine. Although the town itself isn't much to talk ...

From Kakadu we put in our first moderate drive, deciding to skip a couple of places we had been thinking about along the way and after a brief shop and check out of the town of Katherine we arrived in the Nitmiluk National Park (Katherine Gorge to the politically incorrect). In comparison to Kakadu it is very much more touristed, being viewed fr...

The heat and humidity are one thing but the flies!!! They're on your sandwich while you're trying to eat it. They're buzzing around your ears. They're getting up your nose. They bite too! The night we arrived in Darwin was the second hottest on record...we were lucky enough to have air con that night (that only took 3 hours to cool down the room...

Saturday, October 20, 2007 (Written by Stephen) Cutta Cutta Caves, Ghan Train and Katherine Gorge We had decided the previous night to do a full day looking at some of the sights around Katherine and first on the list was the 9am tour of Cutta Cutta caves (28km south). Passed through town to fuel up on gas and boys decided it was time for a toil...

Back to the world of rampant commercial tourism. It was a bit of a shock when we went for a quick look at Katherine Gorge today. A bit like Ayers Rock etc, made us appreciate just how laid back the Kimberley was. Anyway stopped at Limestone Creek last night, just another rest area, and they are fairly plentiful around here and pretty good. Drove...

Just on the outskirts of this friendly cross-roads town a guy pulled over into the gravel to let us overtake but the shower of stones from his vehicle put 5 chips into the windscreen. Doh!

The first time I visited Katherine, I narrowly escape a major flooding. I am still amazed how quickly did the river level rose during the flood of 1998. I only visited the first gorge due to the weather condition. This time whilst the rest of the group canoed through the first 3 gorges, I took a cruise down the gorges. I couldn't paddle and take...

's Morgens worden we gewekt door Ernie de emu en enkele kalkoenen die hier vrij rondlopen. Super grote vogels en grote kangoeroes onderweg, een mooi begin van de dag. We lunchen vandaag in Daly Waters Pub, een klein cafeetje in een dorp met 5 (!) permanente inwoners. Hier mag iedereen iets persoonlijks achterlaten en aan de muur hangen. Een kapo...

On the road again!!! We left Darwin and start our trip down south to Alice Springs. We've got 3 days to do 1,600 kms... Our driver-guide is called Doc (because he looks like Doc in Back to the Future... he does and he's just as weird!) First stop Katherine....

Nitmuluk (Kath**ine Schlucht) Nationalpark Hauptattraktion im Kath**ine Nationalpark ist die kilomet**lange Schlucht des Kath**ine Flusses, die von steilen Felswaenden begrenzt ist. Wir borgen uns fu** einen Halbtag ein Kanu aus und rud**n zwei d** insgesamt 13 Schluchtteilstrecken, die geweils ueb** mehr od** we***** hohe Gelaendestufen getrenn...