To get there we had to go back into town and turn onto the Nitmiluk National Park road and travel for
30kms, avoiding all sorts of things along the way. Seems it must have been pension day this week!!! All forms of interesting groups and individuals along the streets, in the streets, sitting on the footpaths etc...
Once out at the gorges area we parked as instructed by the Information place in town where we purchased our tour tickets, and wandered into the Information place to make sure we were in the right place only to be told we could continue down the road and park right near the boat ramps instead of having to hike over to it from the main building 600mtrs away! Not a good start but we duly moved the car to the nearer park and stood in line in the blazing sun for more than half an hour waiting to be called to our boat. Golly it was hot and I did have a hat on, just hot and humid and the air was impregnated with the smell of the bats roosting in the trees beside the river. Thousands of them, I first thought it was a half dead tree with black leaves until someone told me it was bats. Phewwwww.
Anyway we eventually got on the boat and it was worth the wait, such stunning scenery and the local parks and wildlife boys driving the boat and doing the commentary really knew their stuff. We learnt all sorts of facts and history of the Katherine area and its local tribes and how they have leased this area back to the government so that everyone can get to see and admire the beauty of the land.
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