Even though cyclone Alessia was kilometres away, it has bought plenty of rain and storms to the Northern Territory of Australia. We went canoeing in the rain in Katherine Gorge which was beautiful, but the colours haven't come out in the photographs.
We swam in the rain at Edith Falls.
We got soaked at Pine Creek when it rained all night and was still raining the next morning so nothing had chance to dry out, the car and tent were soaking. But we enjoyed Pine Creek, we drank the cheapest "schooners" of beer and had delicious home made snickers ice cream!
We headed on to Kakadu National Park where we saw rock art which had been painted by aboriginal people who lived in Australia upto 50,000 years ago. We were pretty impressed by this until we read that much of the art had been touched up in the 1960's by local people to keep the art looking fresh!
Last night we got caught in a terrible storm, there was lightning all round us and the rain was so hard we couldn't see the road in front of the car. It felt like we were about to be struck by lightning any moment! We decided not to camp and checked into a dry room!
We went for a walk in the wetlands the next morning.
And climbed up to Ubirr lookout between rainstorms! The lookout had 360 degree views and was one of the most brilliant landscapes we've ever seen, though you can't see all the brilliant colours in the photos.
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