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Milly and Katie's travel Journal!
Hello! since milly and i went our seperate ways i have been staying with friends in Katherine, Northern Territory. the country is exactly what you would imagine austraila to be like, very dry and arrid with lots of bush and plenty of Kangeroos (though i think i have seen more squashed on the side of the road up here than actually alive!)
Since i have been here Katherine river has flooded the whole town and all of the aboriginal communities and people who lived in the town had to be eveactated. (we were safe as we're 15K outside of it!) we were cut off for 3 days and eventually Wacky and i had to brave the floods to attempt to get some panadol for her baby son James. we set off not knowing quite how we were going to get into the town as it was all underwater! but quickly realised boat was the only option and so got a lift along the Stuart highway by police speedboat to the supermarket! First cyclone larry and now a whole town flooded.... just awaiting my next natural disaster!
At the weekend we visited pine creek which is an old mining town, and then Edith falls which were absolutly beautiful- and even more dramatic due tot he flooding! Normally you can swim in the falls but we couldnt because the river bursting its banks meant that they wern't sure if some big salt water crocadiles werent floating around in the swimming holes! (Some boy was actually attacked while he waded around the town..how scary is that!)
After all the excitment the floods caused Katherine has slowley got back to normal and is actually just quite a boring outback town. This morning i was very keen and got up at 5.30am to go for a ride, thats practically when milly and i used to go to bed! it was good fun and i got to ride in a stock saddle (mum i think u should get one there really comfy!) Tomorrow we are off to darwin for a couple of days, it will be nice to be in a city after spending so long in the middle of nowhere. Im staying here till 18th then off to Melbourne to see alexa.
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