Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Week 58- Friday 7th - Sunday 16th July

Enroute to Kathrine, QLD & NT

Star Rating:★★

★=Full Star=Half a Star

Big Red Bash to Katherine – Highlights:

  • Swimming in the refreshing pool at Bedourie and my first rinse off for a while.
  • Marvelling at how brave the bull and bronco riders were at the Bedourie Rodeo, while watching them get thrown off the bulls and horses they were trying to stay on!
  • Cooking damper in a damper making competition at the Bedourie Camel Races.
  • Watching the camel races- the jockeys had to sit right behind the hump on the camels and it looked like they were about to slide off the back!
  • Cheering on the pigs that were also racing at the Bedourie Camel Races (the fast pigs had raced all around Australia, and even in Bundalong!).
  • Playing with my poi balls at our beautiful campsite on top of a rocky mountain.
  • Running around at the awesome playground at Mt Isa.
  • Relaxing in the shade of the beautiful eucalyptus trees at our campsite on Camooweal Billabong- where we stayed for 2 nights.
  • Exploring the Daly Waters Pub and all the interesting mementos that people had left behind (this included driver’s licenses, number plate, hats, badges, stickers, cards, shoes and even BRAS!!).

The moment before the poor rider gets thrown off it's horse!

At the rodeo there was a bull that took a great liking to some people. He wouldn't leave them alone!

One of the many horses trying to get a rider off it's back.👆

The pig races.👇


Making my damper in the damper making comp.👇


My finished damper.

Leading the camels and their jockeys up to the starting line.

Playing with my poi balls on top of our rocky mountain camp spot.

Our camp spot at Camooweal Billabong.


There was a super cute donkey at the Daly Waters pub! It tried to sniff my underarm-and quickly pulled away!!

Standing next to one of the number plate walls at the Daly Waters Pub-we wished we had a spare number plate to put on!

One of the many awesome windmills at the Daly Waters Pub. 


The beautiful sunrises and sunsets at some of our campsites.👇







Kathrine, NT

Star Rating:★★

★=Full Star=Half a Star

At Kathrine, Jackson and I spent most of our time in the pool-diving, swimming and doing handstands. We also went down to the river where I cut my feet heaps when Jackson and I went down the rapids-there was some really sharp rocks! Early one morning we went down to the beautiful hot springs that were just down the road from where we were staying, they were so warm. Jackson and I had heaps of fun floating down the stream with the current. On our last night there we went out to the Katherine Speedway-heaps of cars were competing for the NT Sedan Titles so there were some really good races.

Floating in the hot springs.

The super fast cars going around the track at the speedway.👇

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