Friday 9th August, 2024
The loop was the route from Pine Creek to Kakadu, to Darwin and then back to Pine Creek. We celebrated by visiting Masey's Café in Pine Creek for steak burgers and icecreams. Our plan was to free camp last night and do shopping, etc. in Katherine this morning. However, we missed the turn off to a campsite and just kept going to the town.
There was emptying and filling up and shopping to do before we could head out to a nearby 24hr stopping place for the night. A long day, but it feels worth it this morning when we can just look forward to a gentle day of driving and finding somewhere to camp.
My impression of Pine Creek has changed from our first visit. We stopped there for lunch on the way up and I thought it was very dry, dusty and overflowing with caravans. It was still overflowing with caravans, but finding the nice little café in a side street seemed to make it greener and more attractive. The lawns were there last time, but didn't register as much.
We were feeling a bit of motorhome envy last night as the woman next to us had a beautiful Winnebago Coogee. These are based on the IVECO with double axle at the back. She has electric levellers and electric awning and an electric bicycle in a canvas covering on the back.
Mind you, after hearing (we parked quite close to her) us watching the news, she said she is going to order a Starlink to be delivered to Kununurra. I guess she has been thinking about it for some time. So, a little bit of cross-envy!
Watching her backing out this morning reminded me of how much more difficult it is to get into nice camping spots in a larger vehicle, so I am officially over being envious. It would be nice to have more space, but we would still end up in a muddle inside, as we used to do in our Winnie. This small vehicle is so easy to manage in comparison.
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