Day 103

11/10/2009

Moved out of Kakado this morning and back to the Stuart Highway, heading south for about 50km before a left turn into the Nitmiluk Park which borders the southern edge of Kakado.

At Edith falls there is currently a small waterfall feeding a large pool where it's safe to swim. When the rains come in the next month or so, this will become a large waterfall and a very large pool. "Safe to swim" is a little subjective, as the signs tell you that the local fresh water crocodiles only feed at sunset and sunrise. We swam anyway.

After a couple of hours of being lazy and watching the bus loads of tourists arrive and depart for their lunch stop, we headed further south to Katherine to refuel and stock up on water and food. Current fluid consumption is running at about 6 litres each per day.

Camping tonight in the Nitmiluk Park at Katherine Gorge which is a series of water filled gorges, which we might take a boat ride through tomorrow.

Lat 14 19.03 S
Long 132 25.13 E
Distanc 25672+742km
Town Katherine Gorge