Big Trip: Chapter Two
Matilda has gone. We finally sold her on Monday to a couple of Germans. They really made us work for it though, trying to get us to sort out all their registration, insurance and all. It took nearly 4 hours but we finally got the money and handed the keys over. Good luck to them...
We had a good night on Monday celebrating with a few of our campsite neighbours and the next morning, with heavy heads we left the campsite that has been our home for the past few weeks and set off for Katherine. A bloke called Brett who had been at the campsite longer than us also set off so we're sort of travelling in convoy with him at the moment and will probably end up spending christmas with him and a few others in Broome. That's the current plan but our plans don't tend to stick around very long.
After arriving in Katherine we booked ourselves a trip to Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk Gorge to be politically correct). So yesterday we picked up a canoe and paddled along the gorge. It's hot down here, around 40 degrees in the gorge, but we seem to be conditioned to the heat now, as there was virtually no shade yesterday and we were fine by the end of the day. Who knows how we'll cope with a British winter again...
Once we've sorted out a few things in Katherine we'll finally be getting onto the highway that heads west. We'll be leaving the Northern Territory and crossing into Western Australia in a couple of days. Our next stop will be Victoria River or Timber Creek, but it should just be a quick stop.
For reference we got the tent up in 30 minutes on Tuesday, and down in 15 today. That's half the time of our first attempt. We'll keep you informed on this as we improve...
Pics from the gorge:
We had a good night on Monday celebrating with a few of our campsite neighbours and the next morning, with heavy heads we left the campsite that has been our home for the past few weeks and set off for Katherine. A bloke called Brett who had been at the campsite longer than us also set off so we're sort of travelling in convoy with him at the moment and will probably end up spending christmas with him and a few others in Broome. That's the current plan but our plans don't tend to stick around very long.
After arriving in Katherine we booked ourselves a trip to Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk Gorge to be politically correct). So yesterday we picked up a canoe and paddled along the gorge. It's hot down here, around 40 degrees in the gorge, but we seem to be conditioned to the heat now, as there was virtually no shade yesterday and we were fine by the end of the day. Who knows how we'll cope with a British winter again...
Once we've sorted out a few things in Katherine we'll finally be getting onto the highway that heads west. We'll be leaving the Northern Territory and crossing into Western Australia in a couple of days. Our next stop will be Victoria River or Timber Creek, but it should just be a quick stop.
For reference we got the tent up in 30 minutes on Tuesday, and down in 15 today. That's half the time of our first attempt. We'll keep you informed on this as we improve...
Pics from the gorge:
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