Tues 6 Aug 2013 – Fishing and swimming in the Roper River, then off to Katherine

Remembering our men’s group that meets at 6:30am today and also praying for our Scripture Classes at Bronte – hi to you all – also to Carol, Kevin, Denise & Lydia – also hi to Amy our lovely class teacher.

During the night we heard lots of hee-haws which happened to be a nerd of wild donkeys – about 20 of them which is a much nicer sound than the dingos howling.

Before dawn I set off again fishing for barra.  The river had mist coming off it and it was quite errie having this swirling mist around you while fishing – no bites but plenty of casting practice!

As we were leaving we called in to try and get a home made Mataranks pie.  Yes I know it was expensive at $7.50 but was it worth it – huge, full of tender steak with not a shred of grissle and so delicious – it wins the Aussie pie award so far in our travels – although the Cobar pie still is the best mincemeat pie to date.

Off to Katherine and on the way visited the Cuta Cuta Caves which were given back to the indigenous people in 1979.  Lovely formations which were desecrated by the army who used the stalactites for target practice in the 1940’s using 303’s.  Met up with John and Helen again here.

Great country side and trees full of black cockatoos.

Arrived in Katherine – off to the hot springs which were nice but not as lovely and as warm as the Mataranka Springs.

Now out to Katherine Gorge where we found the campground and went straight for the pool!  Can’t believe the price of $38 for a national park unpowered site!  But beautiful surroundings.

We have been seeing this great 4wd car called “Jurassic Park” at various places and they have been waving at us too.  We finally met the owners, Annabella and Claudio from Italy, when bbqing tonight.  Claudio has been saying to Annabella how much he loved our VW and keeps taking photos of it – and we said how much we liked their van too!  We had a nice chat and are now getting out blog uploaded and then off to bed.