Another odd place; Pine Creek

G'day Mates, did you enjoy the Aussie song in my previous blog? OK lets go on then......

Along the way from Daly Waters to Katherine, just a few funny photo's;

Ant Mounds dressed with t-shirts, hats, dresses etc... 

pffff I'm getting tired only by the look of it...

And we were going over..........

Before we're coming to that odd place, we had a 3 days stop in Katherine. We could have gone to Katherine Gorge but we have done that before and the park there was very expensive, but what we can remember, very nice and worth going there if you never been there before.

Instead we stayed in Katherine and did a bike ride along the Katherine River to the Hot Springs;

Here is the hot spring, the warm water just comes out of the ground

I saw this bike at a shopping centre, the owner was an Irish bloke who was biking from Darwin to Adelaide, well he still had a long way to go;

And now; Pine Creek, another odd place to be;

Pine Creek is a small town between Katherine and Darwin, it's bloody hot here and of course, again in the middle of nowhere. What are we doing here?? Haha looking for gold again. Today (9th of September) we have been detecting somewhere in the bush, started at half past 8 till about 12 o'clock.

Actually that's not interesting for you because we don't find anything anyhow but this camp thing is again very special. It’s called Pussycat Flat and it's on a horse racing ground on which the last race was in 2010.

Its located about 2 k's out of the little village Pine Creek on the road to Kakadu National Park. 

The high season here is over so there are not many caravans.
Because we want to know we're to go to find some gold, we thought the first night lets go to the bar, have a drink and fish and ships and talk to some who can know. Well, it happens what I already thought; no one tells you anything!! But we did had a marvelous dinner for just $ 10,- each and a bottle of wine for just $ 18,-. We had two large pieces of fish each, much salad, potato salad and chips and that was much too much. The cook already knew and when she came to collect the plates, she brought a container where we could put the fish in and take it with us. So, the next day we had a nice dinner with left over’s.

The showers are unique too but it's heaven after a few hours digging in the heat.

Every morning about 6 o'clock we were wakened by a bird with a very special sound.

I asked other people who are already for a long time at Pussycat Flat, if they knew its name but no one did so if you know, please tell me by putting a comment to this blog;

At first I couldn't find him but later I saw him, listen to this;

Because there are no horse races anymore I decided to walk the track myself, it's nearly one kilometre all around, but djee guys, it was hot so it stayed with just once. Fortunately we had discovered a nice spot to cool down and have a picnic.....

Although there were no races anymore, there were still horses; Brumbies which are wild horses;

Again a very special place and I hope someone can help me out with the birds name.

sorry Mates, you most probably have to wait a while for a new story as we're going to a National Park soon were we won't have reception, till then; Cheers!!