13th Day 13-08-11 Katherine Gorge

 

Jennifer,Greg, Wanda, Susan, Peter Michael and I (Dot) went on an  8 AM cruise down the Gorge (apparently There are 13 gorges.  Our tour took us down 2, we had to  walk  between gorges to pick up another boat for the second one.  It was gorgeous.  You could really see how old this land is in the rocks.

The crocs are laying their eggs now and we could see their tracks up the small beaches that occasionally appear along the gorge.  Kayakers are not permitted to land on these beaches.   Tony and Dean went kayaking – did an amazing job, they were not far behind our boat.  We did 2 gorges, they did 3 (4 hours)

Dean and Peter went for a walk through the butterfly gorge Greg, Wanda and Norbert go Kayaking.  Jill gets the last seat on the 3 PM cruise and…….the wonderful Peter D reattaches our winch control box with the assistance of Michael.  Tony repairs John’s lights.

A very cheeky littler agile wallaby helps herself to our bread – eats a hole in the plastic I take it away from her, give her half a slice (we are not supposed to feed them).  I put the bread on a chair – she finds it, I put the bread on the chair and fold the chair up – She reaches in grabs the bag with her mouth and pulls it out, runs off with it.  I chase and catch her (give her another slice for her efforts.  Shhh don’t tell – it was 12 grain bread).

Swimming in the fabulous pool, then dinner around the pool in the evening (all of us).  Tonight we had  a local guitarist playing the wonderful music of the Shadows, Apaches, Ventures and Duane Eddy.  SIGH!  Absolute BLISS!

Ps am I showing my age?