Katherine
We've had to stay a few days in Katherine, waiting for mail to arrive at the post office and waiting for the car to be fixed! We stayed at North Bank Park; a property 5mins out of town for only $20/night - kids free. Here they have hot showers and flushing toilets, a pet pig and a heap of hungry goats.
Katherine Hot Springs
This is a magical place to swim! Free to play, you can venture upstream to where the spring is - and you can swim back downstream to a small waterfall and bigger swimming area's. The water isn't HOT as its title suggests; more of a luke warm temp - nice to cool off without being freezing!
Katherine Gorge - Nitmiluk
We took a 1km walk almost vertically at some points, up some stairs- and more stairs- and more stairs! Such an exhausting trek - but the views from the top are beautiful! We wanted to take our boat out to putt along through the gorge, but you are not allowed motor boats - only canoes.
We stopped in at the floating pontoon on our way back down. We didn't swim but apparently you can. There were bats everywhere! A dead bat was on the ground right near the walkway, and a huge olive python slithered through the garden and had a feed.