Sunday night here at Katherine. We got a late start after Graeme got up at 4 am to photograph the Springvale Homestead with the brilliant stars above. Well, it did not go as well as he planned and he came back kind of semi frozen. He says I have to mention his main lens has died and it’s going to be hard to get photos, but inside information suggests that he still has some pretty good cameras which are working just fine!!!
After our late start (the sun goes to bed early and gets up very late here) we drove the 40 km to Katherine Gorge. Firstly, we took a helicopter along the canyons that make up Katherine Gorge. We also did a landing out there in the middle of the valley in which Katherine Gorge is situated. Its kind of hard to imagine a gorge in the middle of a very large valley, but that’s the story.
In 1998 during flood time the Katherine River was so high and flowing at 30 mph that it could fill Sydney Harbour every nine hours. It was way deep, like 40 feet deep. There are 13 canyons all kind of joined together to make up the Katherine Gorge, so after flying over the Gorge, we then went in the boat. When you can’t get through the gorge at a certain point, you have to get off and walk to another boat to take you on further. The pictures we are sending are all of Katherine Gorge taken today.
Katherine was the daughter of a wealthy man who was funding the exploratory trips of the early explorers and Katherine was his daughter. Wow, I wonder if she ever got to see the massive river named in her honour! The Katherine River is like a boundary of this property we are staying on. The property is very old and has a great history, but its most beautiful feature is its fantastic lagoon and we showed you pictures of the water lilies and tortises yesterday. It’s going to be hard to leave here, but tomorrow we will be pulling out early for Kakadu.
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