Katherine

The 3 Ways Road House is where the Barkly Highway meets the main north-south road, the Stuart Highway, the road to Darwin. We arrived there, and turned right! The countryside is like being in Baz Luhmann’s film “Australia”.
Daly Waters is on the route and at one stage was a refuelling point for Qantas flights on their way to Singapore. Now there’s not much there, an aircraft hangar with memorabilia and a pub. We stopped for a beer and pie lunch.
The towns are few and far between in this neck of the woods but the countryside is mostly wooded, sometimes big trees others more scrubby but always plenty to see, very little bare countryside.
We are in Katherine, a large river of the same name running through the town, there are hot springs, the Gorge and relics of the past. In the 1800s 12,000 sheep were brought overland from Adelaide in the prospect of setting up a sheep station which they named Springvale Homestead. An amazing proposition but it commenced in good years and for some time looked as though it could be a success. However eventually bad years ensued and the project failed. The family involved planted trees for each of their 4 children, the trees still survive! We are enjoying warm weather and the park has a very good pool which we are making the most of.