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Australia
Whenever you mention overseas that you are from Australia, people think “the opera house, skippy and the beaches” but Australia is not only that, Australia is the bush, the outback, the country people, and its wild life and lots more. Ten years ago we joined one of the best four wheel drive club in the country. Being members of the Subaru Club, we have met exceptional people, whom we consider our second family; we learnt how to go camping, four wheel driving and more, now is time to put our skills to the test. We will be travelling to the rainforest, the outback, the world famous great barrier reef, we will go through some remote areas with rugged terrain, we’ll see lots of wild life including the legendary salt water crocodile, furthermore the famous road trains, they are 53 metres long, of course meet the country people, we will be visiting cattle stations; one of them is one and a half million acres and obviously we will be going to a lot of country pubs so we can enjoy a coldie while we meet some of the locals and some adventurous travellers, we are very excited and cannot wait longer to “Go and See Australia”......well...part of it.

14 August 2010

Katherine, Northern Territory

We stopped at The Lost City, with spectacular rock columns forming a look like city, spent a little bit of time in the area and started a very loooong driving day, we don’t know how many millions of corrugations we passed but definitely we were shacked, the fuel started to get lower and lower and the nearest fuel station was Roper Bar, suddenly the light on the dashboard came on, we were running out of diesel, the jerry can with fuel finally came handy, stopped on the road and poured the 20 litres of diesel into the vehicle and continued until we got to Roper Bar and decided to keep on going all the way to Katherine.

We finally reached bitumen in Mataranka; we couldn’t believe the speed limit signs 130 Km/Hr!!!!!! Gabriel just loved it, as soon as we arrived to Katherine we washed the off road granny flat because it was just filthy, covered in red dust and lots of mud, it was so dirty we were afraid they didn’t want to let us in the caravan park.
The next day after getting all the information about the place and surroundings we went to Edith Falls (sorry please don’t try to look at the photos because we don’t know what happened but we lost them), what a beautiful place, we walked through steep and very rocky terrain but it was worth it.

The next day up to Katherine Gorge, we went on the three gorge tour, it was very different because you had to walk from one gorge to the other, this place was amazing and worth the visit. During the tour we saw a crocodile trap......the ranger said "well just in case".

We also visited the School of Air, back in the days when we use to watch the Skippy show on TV, we were amazed how Sunny had to do his schooling by radio. The school of the air broadcast to an area of 800,000 square kilometres, which takes half of the Northern Territory, also they have students travelling around Australia and or living overseas such as Bali, Papua New Guinea, Africa and the Philippines, in addition they cater for children living in cattle stations. Whilst in this place suddenly we were in the middle of a lesson, all runs on the broadband system via satellite with one way visual (teacher to student) and a two way audio system (no more radio communications). It was a great experience.

We also went to Katherine Museum; we really liked it because it had very good information from World War II, Katherine first migrants and the floods which affected the area.

At Katherine we also went to have a nice swim at the hot springs, the temperature of the water was just superb, which it was very pleasant.

We also saw a lot of road trains; they are huge.

Katherine, NT


Katherine gorge, NT
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