I spent another day in Kununurra relaxing in the sunshine before hopping on a bus in the morning to Katherine. I got to Katherine in the early evening. I lugged all my stuff to my hostel. There are a lot more aboriginals up in this area. They hang around in groups all over the town. Katherine is an interesting town. It's not very big and there isn't much to do besides go to the gorge out of town. I was up early the next morning and on a bus out to Katherine gorge which they call nitmiluk in aboriginal. I walked around the information center before making my way down to the boat launch. I decided to do a 3 gorge tour. There isn't much walking involved except 400m between the gorges. We all piled onto ... read more

I spent my last day in Broome having a bit of a wander and then just relaxed at the hostel. My greyhound bus to Kununurra is an evening bus. Ulli helped me with my bags and we headed over to the visitor center where the HUGE bus would pick me up. My bags were loaded onto the bus and I was given my seat. This time saying goodbye to Ulli meant really saying goodbye as we are now headed in different directions. She is on her way to Cairns. I hopped on the bus and got myself comfortable. I had a seat to myself which was nice. The bus left Broome at 6:15pm and we headed down the highway in the darkness. A movie was put on to pass a bit of the time, Pretty Woman. ... read more

After breakfast we all packed up and hopped in the truck. It would be a long drive with not much to see to get to Broome. Our first stop was 80 mile beach. It is actually true to it's name and is in fact 80 miles long. Heaps of 4x4's drive out onto the beach which is PACKED with fishermen. It's not a good swimming beach because of sharks in the area. It's a stunning beach and we had a perfect day to spend some time there. There are heaps of really cool shells all along the beach and sand dollars. From 80 mile beach to the crocodile wildlife park just outside of Broome there was literally nothing to look at. It was a long drive! We arrived at the crocodile park just in time for ... read more

Well my time is up in the hospital. I'm feeling much better and well rested. The painkillers have been working and letting me get some sleep. I can't carry my big backpack but i'm hoping people on the tour will help me. I can carry all my other stuff. I will try to get wheels for it in Broome. Rhett, my new tour guide came and picked me up just after lunch. Everyone on the tour was warned about what happened to me and they were all really nice. Everyone wanted to know the whole story so I shared it with them. Everyone was so helpful with me wanting to carry everything for me. We stopped at the same place for lunch and I walked over to the grocery store and grabbed some more painkillers. Then ... read more

We were up early and made our way to the hostel entrance where the bus from our boat came to pick us up. After picking everyone up we made our way out to where the boat was tied up. We climbed into the small boat that took us out to our big boat for the day. We were doing an eco-tour as the whale shark season officially ended on August 1st. But we were told a spotter plane would still fly out looking for them and if we saw one we could jump in with them for some extra money. We went a little ways out and had our first snorkel trip off the boat. Lots of coral around and lots of big parrotfish. The waves were quite strong as well and it was a good ... read more