{"id":12,"date":"2004-08-21T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-21T05:11:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:01:48","slug":"from_katherine_northern_territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2004\/08\/21\/from_katherine_northern_territory\/","title":{"rendered":"from Katherine, Northern Territory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now made my way to Katherine, Northern Territory, where I scored a sweet little camping spot in the Nitmiluk National Park (which is home to the famous Katherine Gorge).  I will probably stay here a few nights and then start making my way up to Darwin via Kakadu National Park.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1425\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1425\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2004\/08\/21\/the_wildlife\/img_0920ai\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/08\/IMG_0920AI.avif\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sunset on the banks of the Victoria River, Northern Territory\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sunset on the banks of the Victoria River, Northern Territory&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sunset on the banks of the Victoria River, Northern Territory&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/08\/IMG_0920AI.avif\" src=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/08\/IMG_0920AI.avif\" alt=\"Sunset on the banks of the Victoria River, Northern Territory\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1425\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset on the banks of the Victoria River, Northern Territory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The drive from Halls Creek in Western Australia up through Kununurra (where I camped for a few nights) and into Katherine has been really spectacular.  I did a wildlife cruise 43 kms down the Victoria River from Timber Creek, Northern Territory last night before camping in town.  I will fill you in on the details in my Wildlife post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now made my way to Katherine, Northern Territory, where I scored a sweet little camping spot in the Nitmiluk National Park (which is home to the famous Katherine Gorge). I will probably stay here a few nights and then start making my way up to Darwin via Kakadu National Park. The drive from Halls&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2004\/08\/21\/from_katherine_northern_territory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">from Katherine, Northern Territory&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-northern-territory","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}