Decided to stay another night in Katherine so Charlotte went to the campsite office to book it. She returned looking a little bemused. The campsite was not busy, and one would think that additional business would be welcomed. Not at this campsite! Apparently the woman at the office had just qualified with Merit at the Attila the Hun School of Business. And she was not happy at all with Charlotte’s request. Why? Because she had allocated our spot to someone else and didn’t want to alter her nice tidy booking system. She seemed unable to grasp the fact that there were loads of other empty spots around the campsite. Anyway, she grudgingly booked us in whilst muttering something like “Attila would never have allowed this… mutter mutter mutter… should be thrown from the battlements… blah blah blah”.
Went to Katherine Hot Springs which weren’t very hot because the air temperature was 32 degrees. The pools were very crowded and there was a lot of litter. We didn’t think much of the place but that’s probably because the Gibb River Road Gorges were so pristine.
Dinner was at the campsite Bistro. Charlotte and I decided to have the “famous Curry”. Whilst we were waiting for our meal to arrive we pondered how the Curry had become “famous”. One and a half hours later we realised that it was because the food was delivered direct from Calcutta. By Rickshaw! It wasn’t very good either.