Day 21 – Katherine

Report by Mary Bell

The day dawned with the return of “Boomerang Brent” fresh from his recovery of a bout of Chicken Pox. Brent talked wildly about his fond memories of the salty pizzas and the 470 bricks in his motel room back at the Alice.

The activity for the day was a cruise down Katherine Gorge. On the boat we headed up and putted down the gorge munching on the odd apple and boiled lolly. We were treated to a 360 degree turn and then a reverse 360 degree with a full forward thrust before berthing in the gorge.

We unloaded and with a bit of gentle coaxing, hand holding and piggy backing, everyone was transported across the rocks to the second gorge for another short cruise. We were informed of a few cultural events held in this gorge including a Bolero performance.

Everyone was then transported back across to the first boat where we were treated to another cultural performance – Andrew swimming in his ‘Y fronts’.

The afternoon saw many divergent activities including horse riding, canoeing, Red Roostering, visiting the Katherine Show or just plain chilling out.

Some flash nibblies were handed around at sunset and a BBQ followed with adequate supplies of chops and rissoles. Shannon and the musical crew put on a great show at the local campground Country & Western performance. The last ones wheeled back home at the decent hour of about 1.30am.