Mum was keen to visit the local Katherine Markets today, but we were a little disappointed on arrival with mainly food stalls - its saving grace was the old locomotive and historic Katherine railway bridge that provided us with a nice view up the river. We then hot-tailed it to Cutta Cutta Caves (about 27km south of Katherine) to join the 1pm tour. It was great - beginning with a 600m walk around to the cave entrance where Linda, our guide, met us. There wer...

We had a late start, and packed up slowly this morning as Eamon was still not well. It was only 100kms to Katherine so that was fine. We arrived around lunch time and immediately liked the town as it's quite green and not as run down as many of the recent towns we've visited. We checked in and made ourselves comfortable at the Shady Lane Tourist Park - it's really nice with lovely trees and palms everywhere and new amenities - a nice change from the last few ...