We have been in Katherine for a week so far. Its not much of a town but we have family here.One of my sisters, Rachel, lives on the RAAF base at Tindal, and the other, Rebecca, lives in Katherine itself.
Katherine is a fairly major town for NT with all of the service you would expect of a regional town. It is also the gateway to the Kimberley. Otherwise there is not much to do here excepting the normal tourist type stuff so we are having a great catch up with the family (including the 7 niece/nephews )
I have been back out to the Katherine River low levels for a bit of a look as i am trying to convince the brother in-laws that we need to go fishing for Barramundi, but the river is still flowing heavily due to the “Wet” just finishing. We did go down to set some traps to catch Cherabin, a local freshwater prawn. We set these at around 6pm one night and went back down at 11:30 pm to retrieve them. A good survey of the water was required first in case there were any large reptiles in the area but we did not see any. We managed to catch 7 large Cherubin thinking we would have a god snack the next day. Unfortunately they were left in the bucket overnight and therefore died. We will need to catch some more if we are to taste them.
See the logs stuck in the branches of the tree from the last flood above.
My first Barramundi dish for the trip.
I also took the parents out to the Katherine Gorge. Mum was not interested in a river boat tour so it was a quick look only. I have been out in he past and will look up some of those photos to add when i get home.
Everything's closed due to high waters and Crocodiles 
Below is the fuel usage so far for the trip. You can see the usage fluctuating between 15.5 and 17.5 L/100Km which would be due to drivers and headwind. Otherwise, for the load we have been towing i expect this usage is OK for Petrol.
We are off to Darwin on Friday before returning to Katherine for a few more days then home
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