Day 32/33 Katherine Gorge Boat Ride/Walk

Katherine Gorge
 

Day 32 - Saturday - 20/6/2026

This morning we did Parkrun and I came 74th out of 109 people with a time of 37 minuets and 53 seconds. Then we did schoolwork until 2PM when we got on a boat. As we travelled through the gorge, we saw at turtle and about 5 freshwater crocodiles, but they usually don't harm people. 

Freshwater Crocodile

The gorge was big and the cliffs were tall too. At the end of the first section of the gorge, we got off the boat and looked at some aboriginal rock art. There was a wallaroo, a person, some handprints, a turtle and the rainbow serpent. the guide told us a story about the snake and ow it formed the mountains and gorges. 


Wallarroo and people

Turtles

Then we had to go back because the other 2 sections of the gorge that you would normally go to were closed because of flood damage. When we were headed back, we were very lucky and saw a bowerbird in its bower, it had collected lots of white and grey things.

Northen Bowerbird

Day 33 - Sunday - 21/6/2026

Today we went for a walk to a lookout on top of Katherine Gorge. The first part was a climb up stairs to the first lookout. There were some great views of the gorge, and you could see all the water down below. Then we walked a few more minutes to a lookout higher up, but it still had pretty much the same views.

Views from the lookout

Then we walked through the bush until we got to the road were Me, Seb, Dad and Suzie split off from everyone else to go get the cars. The we went to Katherine hot springs and floated down the moderately warm water and slid down the rocks into the strong current.

Sliding down the rocks

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