We hadn’t originally intended to go to Kakadu National Park because it involved a fair amount of back tracking but some people we spoke to at Katherine had highly recommended Gunlom Falls. On the way we stopped at Pine Creek for lunch and also Terry wanted to check out the Railway Museum there but it was a public holiday and it was closed. Before getting to Pine Creek we were slowed down by the road being partly closed as they tried to recover a truck with four trailers that had rolled onto its side in the ditch at the side of the road. Later, driving in to Gunlom we passed a Prado with a camper trailer being recovered. It had swerved to miss a buffalo and rolled over.

We arrived at Gunlom around 4.30pm and as it started to get dark the temperature dropped causing us to use the quilt on our bed – something we hadn’t needed to do until now.