Day 31. Breakfast of pancakes and honey put on by Nitmiluk for the tired travellers doing it tough! Back into Katherine, Sunday morning pretty quiet even though the Country Muster and Festival are on. Lots of brothers sitting about in the shady parks. Coffee with our friends at their van park, they cannot leave Katherine until at least Tuesday when their replacement shockies arrive on the road train from Darwin. Checked the maps and Ross and I will move on west to the Gulf, but slowly so they can catch up. First, a visit to Ross' cousin Sue at her lovely home for a cuppa, then old Springvale Station circa 1880 the first station to bring sheep and established by explorer Giles, then the interesting Katherine museum by the old bombed airstrip. My grandfather Jack Robinson was stationed here with the army engineers in WW2 when he helped push through grading of the Barkley Highway. After a quick lunch we headed south 100 km to small town of Mataranka and onto Bitter Springs. Found a nice campsite and went floating down the hot springs before dinner of pasta, tomato, olives, smoked salmon and of course a red! Another great day!