First night out of Katherine, we camped at Flora River Nature Park for a couple of nights. We did the short walks to some very beautiful water falls. We put the canoe in and after portaging around some rapids, fished, or at least Ric fished while I held us in place hugging an overhanging branch and kept an eye out for crocodiles. We ended up with a couple of feeds of sooties. No luck with the 5 barra we caught as they didn't meet the 55cm size limit. From there we did a one night stopover at Victoria River Roadhouse on our way to Gregory National Park. We checked out Jasper Gorge as a camp spot - didn't think much of that so headed across a 4WD track (took us an hour to go 20 kms) to Limestone Gorge to find it closed due to road washouts from the floods. Ended up camping at nearby Bullita for 2 nights, and walked into Limestone Gorge. Spectacular scenery but quite different from what we had seen to that point. The last two nights we spent at Keep River NP. No water, but beautiful sunsets over Bungle Bungle type landscape.We have met some lovely people along the way. We spent this afternoon with a couple I taught with 20 years ago. They have been over some of the terrotory we are heading to, so we got the good oil on that.
Along the way we have been developing a range of skills, such as 4wdriving (photo), wood gathering (photo), and cooking scones in the camp oven (photo), as well as taking in some amazing scenery (photos of Katleen Falls at Flora River, and the Victoria River.)
From here we head off along the Gibb River Road to Broome with a number of excursions north to take in some spots that have been recommended to us.
We thought we were taking thing easy and just ambling along, especially on the bitumen, but we came across a couple doing it differently this morning. Photo.
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