Arnhem Land & More

We have had a very different start to our trip as we are only beginning our adventures now from Katherine, even though we’ve been on the road for over a week. Dennis and Tops left home over 2 weeks ago to travel to Kununurra to attend the wedding that had been postponed since 2020. What a wonderful experience it was for them as their whole family attended and it was a very happy celebration. Our start to the trip wasn’t as joyous as we attended the funeral of a beautiful wife mother and friend in the Barossa Valley. From there we had what appeared to be the daunting task of travelling nearly 3000km in 4 days to meet up with Dennis & Tops here in Katherine. The trip was however, quite easy and we made it here in plenty of time. I even took the wheel at one stage and competently passed 2 road trains - although I do believe Darryl was a little anxious! Along the way we stopped at Coober Pedy, the Alice Springs Showgrounds, a farm stay out of Tennant Creek then Bitter Springs. We did no sightseeing along the way as we have visited all these places on previous trips- except at Bitter Springs where we enjoyed the thermal springs and Darryl put a line in (with no success)

We are now staying at a farm stay a few kms out of Katherine and it’s been very restful after big travelling days. The whole Greenwood clan arrived here too on Monday, on their way back to Darwin so it was another happy evening together.

In Katherine we’ve once again enjoyed the hot springs, have topped up our supplies and caught up with washing. We’ve also put all winter gear under the bed as it’s very warm and humid here and no need of coats! We like to attend ANZAC ceremonies wherever we are, so I diligently looked up the times of the March and service here in Katherine and we rocked up nice and early, only to find out we’d missed the lot! Evidently they changed the time! Plus we also found that they don’t have a service anymore so we didn’t get to any Anzac ceremony this year. We went and had a coffee in town instead. Dennis has been keenly trying out his fishing expertise and spent some time at the weir - unfortunately, no success! 

We are booked into the Gove Boat Club at Nhulunbuy for a week and as we sit under the beautiful trees, we’re debating whether to allow 2 or 3 days to travel the 730km to there. Evidently the road is pretty rough with flood damage so we won’t be hurtling along at 100kph - so we’re beginning to think it’s wiser to allow more time. We’ve since made enquires and the suggestion is allowing 3 days is better than rushing in 2 - so looks like our real adventure begins tomorrow! So the next blog will hopefully be from Arnhem Land. So I’ll sign off here and we send our love to our readers. Marg, Darryl, Dennis, Tops ❌❌❌