Put the tent down and got in the car to leave only to find the car battery was flat and I didn't have anything on draining power. There was no problem getting someone with a jump lead, but could we chance a weak battery on the 500 km of nothing to Katherine without mobile phone cover? I have road side assistance as it is a hire car - no problem get it sorted now, or so I thought. It is a long story but it took two and a half hours for the assistance people to get...

I got up at the crack of 9.30am to be greeted by an almost empty campside (previously heaving). All the caravaners had long since gone, racing to the next place to get a good pitch (and start their adjusting). Three Irish girls in a van that kept Liz up were still there. We needed to do some shopping, a thick quilt, and because housing it meant deflating the air bed an air bed pump also. Liz is liking her little tent, she can almost sterilize it with some bug sp...

To save our livers and wallet we had to move on. We headed down past parched red soiled landscape to Katherine. Despite it being on the low 30's we both decided to go down to the hot springs. The first surprise was that it was free, the second was that it is not hot but slightly warm. Loads of elderly people were bobing around and we pretty much did the same - until we got bobbed out. Getting an approved picture of Liz bobbing helped to kill lots of time. The c...

We woke up both fresh (gasp) - Bushy Dave (post 'hair of the dog') was not feeling so good. Adelaide River has a WWII cemetry, that we walked down to have a look at. The picture is of a flat cane toad, that we kept seeing on the way there. Cane toads are vermin in Aus, cars will try and flatten them as they drive along. They also scare the poo out of you as they russell in the dried leaves - Australia has the most poisonous snakes in the world. Didn't do a lo...

The afternoon progressed at the pub- we got chatting with a few locals sitting in the "Reserved - Knitters Corner". Incidently, the sign was put up as a joke. The recipients of the joke, were not impressed and were never seen again. Alexi sat at the knitters corner was keen to talk to us. She was 66 or 76 year old depending on who she told. She reminded me of Clint Eastwoods mum in 'Every which way but lose' film, and another great character. She is a stornch bel...