After a couple of days at Mataranka we hit the road once more and headed to Katherine via cutta cutta caves (pretty good) to check out Katherine Gorge. These days Katherine George is owned by the aboriginals and leased back to the National Parks and it operates under the name "Nitmiluk". There are many gorges along the one river but you can't just cruise up them in your tinnie because after the first gorge you have to get out and walk past the rapids to get to the next gorge. You can pay through the nose to hire a canoe but this wasn't an option for us as it was too early in the wet season and the National Parks were still working to make sure there were no Salties in the river.
Thankfully the Nitmuluk camping grounds had a great swimming pool to cool off in after a bushwalk and this kept the kids going. Since the National Parks have the area pretty well rapped up we caved in and booked ourselves on a breakfast cruise up the first 2 gorges. If you ignore the $250 odd dollars it costed for 2 hours Inc breakfast (Matilda was free cos she's only 4) the scenery and the food was great.
While Katherine is a pretty big town and good to restock, we had a bit of a let down when the Tyre people we had ordered the new tyres from didn't get them in time...so we said farewell to Katherine and decided to fix the tyre problem in Darwin (we still have a spare Tyre and 2 spares for the trailer that will fit on the truck in a pinch anyway....she'll be right!)
Thankfully the Nitmuluk camping grounds had a great swimming pool to cool off in after a bushwalk and this kept the kids going. Since the National Parks have the area pretty well rapped up we caved in and booked ourselves on a breakfast cruise up the first 2 gorges. If you ignore the $250 odd dollars it costed for 2 hours Inc breakfast (Matilda was free cos she's only 4) the scenery and the food was great.
While Katherine is a pretty big town and good to restock, we had a bit of a let down when the Tyre people we had ordered the new tyres from didn't get them in time...so we said farewell to Katherine and decided to fix the tyre problem in Darwin (we still have a spare Tyre and 2 spares for the trailer that will fit on the truck in a pinch anyway....she'll be right!)
