Our first stop in the NT was in Katherine. Caravans EVERYWHERE!! It's the gateway to the east, west, north and centre of Australia. We decided very quickly that we wanted to move on as soon as possible. We felt as if we were in the wild west with the max speed limit being 130 km per hour - NT drivers and huge road trains coming at us from all angles. Chris was very upset he was pulling a caravan!
We did walk to the top of Catherine Gorge which was beautiful, and pretty steep too.
Also, there must have been a dingo in the caravan park the night we stayed in Katherine as when we woke up in the morning ONE of Chris's good hiking boots was GONE! We searched the place flat but the dingo took it!!! One good thing about bigger towns is that there is usually a Country Target (with very limited choice) so he managed to get a new pair of sports shoes - only one size 11 in the shop! He needed them badly as we were off to Kakadu!
Kakadu is amazing. That's all I can say..... the huge rocks, wetlands with the lilies, the bird life, the ancient Aboriginal rock art sites, the crocodiles!, the varied vegetation, the sunsets, the billabongs, the creeks, the rivers, and Aborigines who live just as they did 1000's of years ago ... just all amazing and beautiful.
We chose to stay in designated bush camps. Few campers, dead quiet at night and an endless ceiling of stars...... a fair few mozzies though, as we were fairly close to wetlands.
We would absolutely recommend a visit to Kakadu.
