Heading West

Our travel today took us south backtracking down to Katherine. The Stuart highway is wide and undulating with quite a few roadtrains. Our plan was to have a night at Edith Falls which are said to be spectacular . We were also aware that to get a campsite was first-in basis from 10am. We arrived at 11.30am to no vacancies. Temperature in early 30's again so we parked up as close as possible as the carpark was overflowing and walked in for a swim.

Edith falls was pretty and the pool was really big but the previous few days has spoilt us as we have seen and swum some amazing rock pools. We dipped in for a swim for 30 mins. Water was cooler but very refreshing all the same. Stopped for lunch then headed to Katherine about 50km further on.

As we had already stayed there we decided to push on and head west towards the WA border. Another 200km on and we made it to Victoria River roadhouse with a few minutes to spare before the 5pm drinks. Such a hot day still and after 400+ km it was nice to relax in the shade. The Victoria River is beautiful with a wide river, lush vegetation and spectacular hills which were glowing red in the late afternoon sun.

Tomorrow is the border crossing into WA. Not only are there restrictions on fresh fruit and vegetables coming across the border, we also both had to apply to enter due to covid restrictions. We also have to prove we have been in NT for more than 15 days which thankfully I had kept some receipts from our first days in NT.Read more