That time zone shift of 1 ½ hours!
Woke up at 8am! Anyhow, staggered out and hopped into the 195km to Katherine, ran
over a greeny yellow snake in the middle of the road, which I am not happy
about, did some shopping, drank some coffee and headed north, with a detour to
Edith Falls. Narrowly avoided a near disaster as some lunatic overtook us
across double unbroken lines around a blind corner, pushing the van ahead of us
off the road to get back in in the nick of time. Mustn’t have seen the signs
announcing the overtaking lane 2km ahead. Also came across the remains of a van
or some such strewn along a few hundred metres of road side where it had
destroyed itself.
Got into Edit Falls, which we had
heard it was beautiful, fantastic etc etc, but it’s just a big pool with a bit
of water splashing in over in the distance. Did I mention it was hot again?
Highlight of the day was some bikini clad European girl getting out of the pool
and then getting very excited in some incomprehensible tongue about something that
she saw near her towel. Thought it might have been a salty, but no, just some
harmless looking, brightly coloured snake…
I mumbled something about 'it's probably not dangerous, or it could be a taipan (it wasn't)' but added, 'don't worry, they're only the 2nd most deadly snake in the world, and besides, you'll have about 2 minutes to think about it after it bites'
Couldn’t be bothered with the 4.5 km
walk to the ‘Top Pool’ and uncharacteristically, I wasn’t interested in a swim
and so we pushed on up to Pine Creek, which is just as well as we grabbed the
last useable spot in the van park. We had a swim in their pool instead, which
was reasonably un-cold, and I later went out and poked around the remains of
the old town. It’s claim to fame was gold, and then the overland telegraph, and
the Darwin – Adelaide railway and then a hospital for the AIM (go on, look it
up, try ‘Flynn’). Anyhow, they have some of the old stuff still laying about
and I took a few snaps for your edification.
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| Main Northern Line, up until 1979. Pine Creek, NT |
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