…And on to Katherine
One of the things that strike
you about Kakadu National Park are the huge areas that are constantly being
burned as part of the age old Aboriginal tradition of environmental
preservation, especially immediately after the wet season, when fires
won’t get too out of control. 30% of the park is burnt every year, thus
over a 3 year cycle the entire park is subject to hazard reduction.
This fire has stopped and not rampaged through the
entire area, reducing dry scrub but allowing animals to escape. NSW could learn
a few lessons from this.
A reminder that
Brumbies still inhabit the area.
And I say goodbye to the
No sooner do you leave the
park and its
welcome back to the commercial world…
It was Saturday, and we had a
problem. We had run out of memory for the digital camera. Did this mean the end
of taking pikkies? Digital memory cards are not only
very expensive they are hard to find as were computer downloading services.
What were we going to do?
Like an oasis in the dessert!
The Didj
Shop and Internet Café in the heart Of Katherine!
Here we were able to download
all our photos onto a CD and catch up with all our email.
Using a clever play on words,
the Didj shop is home to the “Didj” elements on either side of the spectrum of
civilization.
It is both a “didj”ital internet café offering numerous
digital services, and an Aboriginal arts shop selling artworks and “Didj”eridoos.
Here I am with proprietor
Glen Bird, a great ideas man and budding entrepreneur.
Glen explains the story of
one of his paintings.
“In the Beginning of
Time” by Paddy Fordham Wainburranga
The story it tells:
“At the dawn of Aboriginal culture all
Our photos safely downloaded
onto CD and our digital memory renewed, we set off down the road.
The
There are no speed limits.
You sit in your air
conditioned car, engage the cruise control and set off at 160 Km/hr.
Our destination, Mataranka,
113 Kms down the road towards