Steps retraced

Welcome back to the North. We are on the move.

Footy under lights at the Katherine Show Ground just 100m across the road from the Boab Caravan Park. South Katherine eventually take a good lead over Eastside, on a sea-saw game of high skill levels. Relaxed crowd come to see a family event in an alcohol free setting. The grounds were so different to the carnival in the dust a fortnight ago at the Sports Carnival in Hermannsburg.

Big Horse Creek Camp, Gregory National Park, Victoria River (and very Regal she is), blazing sunset, 37° day, correspondingly balmy night, toothed logs in the river, sad fisher people (lack of fish or shirt selection), ants (do not lay on the ground), bug free night air.

Some things don’t change. But we have been here before so some things are clearly different. The calendar moves. Seasons change. The land responds.
Our previous passing here was early September and much later in The Dry and the place really has a different appearance. So much greener, so many grasses covering the red soil even though the last wet was really only a damp. Rainfall was well down in these parts. I am sure folk at home on The Coast would have been happy to share some of theirs.Read more