Thursday 23rd July 2009 – Timber Creek to Katherine

08:55, 120883 – Leaving Timber Creek

There are lots of road works along this stretch of road.

It would seem that over the wet season with all the floods, the roads get very damaged and this dry season is the only time they have to do roadworks. (Even though this is the time of year that the roads have the greatest useage due to tourists.

They are even building a new high level bridge across the Victoria River.

Victoria Crossing Roadhouse

12:50, 121174 – Katherine

We’ve again averaged less than 4k per litre as we do frequently whe towing the van.

17:00, Katherine Hot Springs
We parked above the Katherine River and walked down to the springs (which flow into the river) and were reminded of the possibility of salty’s in the river by the crocodile trap.

These hot springs were actually a creek about a metre deep which had it’s bed covered by white sand and gravel at a very pleasant 28deg. It even had seps and a disabled ramp access ramp. This was very welcome after a long day of travel.

We had noticed photos in town of previous floods in Katherine reaching 20m+ and saw evidence of this on the walk back from the springs. See photo below with a huge log lodged high in the tree top.