3rd September

Today we left Boab Caravan Park at Katherine to go to Mataranka Homestead and the Thermal Springs. It wasn't a long trip only 107 klm's settled in had lunch and down to the springs for a swim, just beautiful .We noticed when we were in the pools a young aboriginal family who came to the pools to bath their 3 young children and mum had a dip. We were told that they had caught a tortoise, had started a fire, (which we noticed) cooked the tortoise and had eaten it. There are Wallabies and Peacocks walking around the caravan park

 

 

 

 

4th September........... We decided to stay another day at Mataranka to enjoy the thermal springs and do some sightseeing. On  the way into town we had  a look at  the replica of the original homestead from the movie that was filmed here "We of the Never Never" When we were in the post office we asked the lady where the historical cemetery was. She gave us a book "The Girl Who Talked to the Stars' written about Bett Bett, the Little Black Princess of the Never Never, and told us to drive 12kms out of town where we were able to see many old graves of the people of whom the book was written about. Back to the van for lunch and a swim.