We have been staying in free camps wherever we can. Of course in some of the more remote places, there is no other choice. Some free camps have no amenities, some have pit toilets and some have toilets & cold showers. Hence, we try to camp by waterholes where we can swim in lieu of a shower. The photo of Ric swimming was taken at Butterfly Springs - one such camp, south of Roper Bay. Of course, there are some places where we skip a swim as the local crocodile population might take offense - as in Towns River in the next photo.
Coming out of Butterfly Springs we had a hilarious twenty minutes following a young colt that had a liking for the road. It refused to head off to the scrub and started trotting off in front of us looking back repeatedly over each shoulder. As we sped up it broke into a gallop but kept to the middle. We tried backing off, stopping, running up behind and honking, all to no avail. When we thought the poor animal could do no better than to drop dead from a heart attack it slowed a little and as we edged up beside it finally made a dash for the bush and we were able to get up a bit of speed.
We spent a couple of nights in Elsey NP near Mataranka, canoeing the Roper River and walking the tracks through the park.
We tried to buy a replacement solar panel in Katherine, without success. So we made a quick trip to Darwin to buy a unit there, and visitied Litchfield NP on the way back to Katherine. We stayed overnight at Florence Falls and did quite a few of the walks in the park. The photo is of the Cascades in the park.
Enjoying your great photos. Looks like a marvellous holiday.
ReplyDeleteAll well in the court, Mike will email to update you on June's place. Keep well and watch out for the crocs!