Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Trainspotting in Katherine




We are back in Katherine and would you believe, it is raining today!

But yesterday was a beautiful day and we got up early to see the Ghan arrive from Adelaide. You may well say, why don’t you just go down to Keswick if you want to see the Ghan, but there are beautiful huge outback skies here and fun to see the long train appear out of the bush. Also a chance to people watch, about 300 tourists got off for a quick tour of the town and local highlights. Lots of old legs, limping in new pristine sneakers!

(For OS readers, the Ghan connects Adelaide to Darwin (via Alice Springs) by rail and is named after the Aghans who opened up much of the outback with their camel trains.)

We leave tomorrow for Kununurra.

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