Trephina Gorge, Jessie and Emily Gorges, then back to traffic and crowds

Trephina Gorge is another gem with bright red rocky sides and loads of birds. We saw the black faced cuckoo shrike, variegated fairy wren, lemon bellied honeyeater, black honeyeater, white plumed honeyeater and painted honey eater and a hooded robin and red capped robin and a red backed kingfisher. We’ve nearly run out of food (mainly because there’s hardly any shops between Katherine and Alice but also because of a lack of planning) so we created a baked beans with tinned corn and potato bake, topped with crushed garlic toasts and parmesan – do you recognise this, Heidi? Russ said you used to make something like this!

 This is called a holly grevillea for obvious reasons

 You can see all the little creeks that feed into the gorge, as near horizontal lines running into the middle

 The mistletoe bird

 The variegated fairy wren

 We think this is a baby hooded robin