Tuesday, 15th June

Last night we went hunting for cane toads! Only one of us wanted to go and the other had to be "encouraged," and we only stayed out for a couple of minutes until we spotted a baby toad.

This morning we tried extremely hard to go slow with hooking up and leaving, as we only had a 100 km drive to Katherine and couldn't get onto our site until 11.00 am. We arrived at 10.30 and the nice lady allowed us to set up, even though we were early. We are staying at the Big 4 Low Level Caravan Park and it is very nice! Green grass, shady, nice amenities, big sites, pools and a bistro all help, as does the very friendly and helpful reception staff. Surprise, surprise - we are on a site next to David and Lorraine, first met at Wycliffe Well then at Mataranka.

This afternoon we checked out Stockdale Homestead and were lucky enough to arrive just as the daily free tour was starting! A very interesting tour with lots of different trees, including a raintree and a boab, and a couple of tawny frogmouths sitting in a tree. Cat refused to leave the car - he just sat there and shedded!!! It is HOT at Katherine.

A very pleasant happy hour today with Dave and Lorraine, plus another couple who followed us from Mataranka. I have also switched perfumes - Christian Dior has now been replaced by Eau de Aerogard!