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| What a nice sight to see, the last time we saw a sign like this was in 1970. |
We arrived in Katherine for the day to fill up with fuel, water, groceries, wash the car and bus and buy grog. Of course, once again, we had to wait till 2.15 to buy alcohol, Woollies have stopped selling cask wine, so had to go to the bottle shop, almost double the price for a cask and only permitted to buy 1 cask per day. They scan your licence, so you cant go back and buy another later that same day!!!! Then off to WA, Two roadside campstops, the roadsides so much nicer than anything we had seen before. Not much to see or do between Katherine & WA, but the Gregory National Park rock formations and the Victoria River that runs thru it were stunning. Cooked up all our fruit & vege before we went thru quarantine on the border and then we were in WA.
This is a boab tree, such a beautiful tree scattered thru both NT and WA. It has leaves & flowers during the wet season but although it looks dead now it is alive and thriving. Some of these are massive. This was discovered by Lt.Gregory and is in the Gregory Nat Park. His name, date and details are carved in this tree, where there was a small settlement on the Victoria River at Timber Creek NT.
We were going to free camp once we got to Kununurra but wasnt happy with where the camp was so have found ourselves a caravan park to go to. Booked for 1 night, now staying 4. The caravan parks here are chockers most days, most wont take bookings, you just line up and wait for someone to leave in the mornings and then you get their spot. Even the Showgrounds that take only big rigs or those with pets is full. Kununurra itself is a lovely town and we really liked the look of it. But everything is closed, apart from Coles on Sundays, even all the touristy/souvineer type shops. Aboriginals here are as badly off as the other places we have come across. Lots just aimlessly wandering around, houses, cars trashed, lots just living/camping just on the towns edges.
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