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...

I emerged from my tent to discover that I am neighbours with one of the characters from last night (blog picture). We said the customary "G'day" and had a quick chat about last night. Minutes later Dave came back with some beers "I am not going to take no for an answer" and handed me and Liz (who had literally stuck her head out of the tent for the first time) a beer. Dave or as he is commonly called 'Bushy Dave' had spent six years cycling around and then thro...

Spent the day being a tourist visiting all the waterfalls in Litchfield. Pretty waterfalls that fall into pools that you can swim in. One pool was closed as they hadn't got round to fishing the crocs out after the wet season, the other ones were a bit of a challenge due to the sheer number of people. Despite this I did enjoy swimming under the falls and checking out the golden orb spiders. Liz did not go in - happy to read the extensive does and donts that Austra...