Days 13 – 15
Cutta Cutta Caves
This is in the Cutta Cutta caves. Cutta Cutta means ‘lots of stars’. It got its name because the formations glitter like stars.
This is a picture of us in front of a stalactite. Che told the guide the difference between stalactites and stalagmites. Stalactites have to cling on very tight to stay on the roof. Stalagmites might, some day, reach the roof.
Katherine Hot Springs
We swam in Katherine Hot Springs. It wasn’t as good as Bitter Springs, but it was OK.
Katherine Gorge – Nitmiluk
This a blue faced honey eater. Matt calls them blue faced money eaters. It came really close to us: half a metre from us.
This is a flying fox. We saw them at the gorge when we were lining up to go on the boat.
These are Aboriginal rock paintings. They were painted up on the cliff by the Jawoyn.
We are sitting on the one of the three boats. We had to go on three boats because we went to three gorges. In the background is one of the gorges.
Matt is sitting on the boat. He was the first person on the boat.
We saw 5 freshwater crocodiles (freshies). We didn’t see any salties but we saw saltie traps.
This is Che swimming in a rock pool between the first gorge and the second gorge. We think this was croc free because we didn’t see any crocs, plus they said this one didn’t have any crocs.
This is Matt swimming with Che’s noodle.
Edith Falls
We are swimming in Edith Falls. Can you see the waterfall behind us?
This is Matt swimming in the cold pool.
We walked up the top and saw the top waterfall.
We went swimming at the top falls. We swam really close to the waterfall. It was hard to swim in close because the waterfall was pushing water at us.
This is us getting into the water for another swim.
Tomorrow we go to Kakadu where there are lots of crocs.
More noodling for potch?
That is a funny joke Uncle John.
Can you please put up more jokes for us.
From Matt and Che
I liked the blue-faced honey money eater, the flying fox, and the freshy. Do the freshies and the salties look the same? Aren’t you afraid that they might be in the water when you swim?
Great waterfalls
Great swimming
Hi Grandpa,
The freshies have a small snout but the salties have a big wide snout. The salties are bigger than the freshies.
Mum is the only one a bit scared when we go swimming. But we are sensible where we swim.
From Matt and Che
Ohhh. Crocs are a bit frightening! It is much greener and lush than I imagined it to be.
Aunty Cathy
Hi Cathleen,
Crocs aren’t scary, they are cute and cuddly.
From Matt
(We haven’t swum with any though)
That is so cool that you found a croc in the wild!
From Ryan
Hi Ryan,
The crocs are really common around here. On a slide show that a ranger showed us there was a croc walking across a road. It could have gone under a bridge but it didn’t.
I wish you were here.
From Che
Ahhh good old Katherine Gorge – it brings back memories… Heroic Hubi hired “romantic tandem” kayaks.. but it turned out I wasn’t the placid passenger he envisaged. So we zigzagged up 8 gorges (which happens when there are two pilots in one boat). Hubi had heat stroke by evening and I had to find my nurse’s hat and boil water all night long so it was considered ‘drinkable’. I hope visit #2 might be just a little less eventful!! 😉
Looking forward to hearing about Kakadu – which we all adore!!
What’s the temperature like?