In the words of our good friend Helen Marchant, “Kathe
rine is a dump, get out as quick as you can”. [readers, be very careful what you say to us, you might be published on the internet!]. We think Helen was being a little hard – “dump” is a relative term. We thought Katherine was civilisation – internet access, mobile phone coverage, cooked breakies, coffee, a wonderful stonegrill restaurant where slabs of meat were presented with a red hot granite slab for you to cook to your liking on the table. “Bloody luxury” – Monty Python (not sure which one).
rine is a dump, get out as quick as you can”. [readers, be very careful what you say to us, you might be published on the internet!]. We think Helen was being a little hard – “dump” is a relative term. We thought Katherine was civilisation – internet access, mobile phone coverage, cooked breakies, coffee, a wonderful stonegrill restaurant where slabs of meat were presented with a red hot granite slab for you to cook to your liking on the table. “Bloody luxury” – Monty Python (not sure which one).This is an interesting part of the world. Darwin and Katherine were bombed by the Japanese in 
WWII. Stuart had a worrying episode of trainspotting when he realised the Ghan was in town – one of the world’s great train journeys, running twice weekly from Adelaide to Darwin. The platinum service is $3000 per person each way. It is so long that the front coach is almost in Alice Springs before it leaves Katherine.
WWII. Stuart had a worrying episode of trainspotting when he realised the Ghan was in town – one of the world’s great train journeys, running twice weekly from Adelaide to Darwin. The platinum service is $3000 per person each way. It is so long that the front coach is almost in Alice Springs before it leaves Katherine.We had a trip to Cutta Cutta caves, 27km 
South of Katherine to see amazing limestone formations and our fourth snake of the trip.
South of Katherine to see amazing limestone formations and our fourth snake of the trip.The Katherine River ran behind our camp site, which brought some great wildlife such at the Rainbow Bee Eater and more hot springs, of course! And the bottle tree is amazing - wonder how it got its name?! The bloodwood was equally well named.
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