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NT Road Trip Day 3/4 - Katherine National Park
We set off early to head out of Kakadu National Park to head south to Katherine (Nitmiluk) National Park - unbelievably it took around 3.5 hours to reach Katherine. I drove us out of the park through the beautiful lush green forest (it's wet season so the nature and wildlife is stunning and plentiful), stopping at interesting sights along the way …
Kangaroos to Katherine
Carl and I left the rain fly off our tents last night to allow some of the breeze in. I found I didn't sleep very well without the tarp over the tent because I keep expecting to open my eyes and have some crazy animal staring me down through the mesh. Every noise I hear in the night catches my attention. Around midnight, Carl yelled out from his …
Katherine Gorge
So, just before we went to bed, I read online that the hike nearby that we were going to do is closed for "feral animal control", which basically means the rangers get to go shoot some animals in the park. The only walk open was the 3k walk up to the first Katherine Gorge lookout. The trail was allright, but nothing special. It was nice to look out …
Katherine
Katherine with about 3000 inhabitants was 150 km away. Once we had arrived there we treated ourselves with a double room at a motel. Despite being one of the bigger cities of the Northern Territories Katherine didn’t have to offer too much in terms of entertainment (is the outback after all mate). However two kilometers outside of town were …
Warm Katherine.
Warm Katherine. Emma wanted to pick Mangoes but neither me or Jonathan wanted to do that so we left after two days to see more of Northern Territory.