Crossing Borders

Leaving behind the amazing Kimberleys, we trek on over the border...our first time into the Northern Territory. We are staying in another van park in Katherine with our good friends and their travelling companions.  It's a good place to stock up on some food and that night we all sit around (wine in hand!) and listen to a dutchman playing the accordian.A woman who also has an accordian joins him and although they have never met each other, they play their music as if they've been doing it together for years.  They draw a good crowd and Julie and I sing along to some great Aussie favourites.  I think of my Mother who would have encouraged the whole crowd to join in.
Next day we say goodbye to our mates promising to meet in some other part of Australia, and Steve and I venture North and do a loop through  Litchfield National Park.  We stop at Wangi Falls and although it's pretty, there are a lot of tourists and quite frankly we have equally beautiful falls around Cooktown...without the people!  When we stop for our morning coffee  under a bridge we notice the debris from earlier flood waters....not hard to see that an incredible volume of water flows through the area in the wet season!
Onward to Darwin where we take in some of the city and settle in to a nice B and B for the night.  Am loving the tropics, especially the frangipanis, and throw some in my hair as we make our way to dinner at a great Italian restaurant overlooking the marina.
Kakadu was on the agenda but we decided to leave that till after a big wet and also when we are not short of time.....we are eager to get into Queensland.