Stopover at Katherine

What was meant to be a stopover turned into 2 days as we are in no rush at this stage to get to Darwin. We are staying at a caravan park which is next door to the Katherine Hot Springs and we went there for a refreshing swim. Despite being approximately 34 degrees, it feels mildly warm and it’s nice to swim somewhere there is no chlorine. We don’t want to do too much here are we’ll be coming back though here after we’ve finished at Darwin.

One place of interest we did visit was the Jurassic Gardens which is entirely filled with all varieties of Cycads. These plants are almost unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs hence the name of the gardens. You can read more about them at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycad

It was also nice not to have to pay huge prices for fuel. In fact this was the cheapest fuel we have bought since leaving Perth over 8 weeks ago. It's still quite hot here but we are starting to get a taste of the humidity of the tropics which we know we'll get when we hit Darwin.