View from the lower lookout

Day 113 - back to Katherine (Victoria River escarpment walk)

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July 18th 2015
We had no reason to get up early the next day so we had a bit of a sleep in and woke to a lovely surprise. One of the people we had met on the cruise (who was in a van just a few doors down) was heading west to Kununurra and had left all of her fruit and vegetables for us. Lovely lady! We left Timber Creek and had no plans past Katherine (which wasn't so far) so when we came across the escarpme ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more