We got up early and packed everything up and headed to Cooinda for a look. There wasn’t much to look at in the town itself, so we made our way to Yellow Water boardwalk and found a park. We walked along the boardwalk marvelling at all the animal life that called Yellow Water home. Back into the car, we decided to head for Katherine, as the other places to visit in Kakadu all involved many kms of dirt road, and I was over those corregations!
We arrived in Katherine about lunchtime, after one stop on the way to fix the tv antenna which I had managed to snap off on a tree when pulling out of Yellow Water. We drove around the town and checked out a few caravan parks before deciding to drive out to Nitmiluk Gorge (Katherine Gorge) to stay at the park out there.
We set up camp and the boys hit the pool to cool off. I was excited to find that the washing machines were complimentary....at other parks it was always $3 or $4 per load. Thomas made friends with an old couple that were playing UNO Rummy Up, and conned a lesson and a few games with them.
We decided that we couldn’t go without swimming in the Katherine River, so we grabbed our towels and noodles and headed for the river. The trees around the river were filled with thousands (and that’s an under-exaggeration, not an over-exaggeration) of bats in the trees lining the river.
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| Small sample of bats in the trees |
The smell of bat shit was foul! We ducked and weaved our way down the path to the swimming area, being careful not to wear the foul smelling stuff. Once on the jetty, we sorted our gear and jumped into the lovely cool water. After some bombs and dives, and a bit of floating on the noodles, we headed back to the caravan for tea.
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