DAY 4 - CAPE CRAWFORD TO KATHERINE
* Historic Daly Waters
* Bitter Springs for a swim at this significant Aboriginal site
* Adelaide River
* Arrive Darwin for end of tour dinner
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Daly Waters
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Elsey Station Cemetry... just 300m from the homestead
Elsey Station, ninety kilometres south of Katherine
Jeannie Gunn OBE, 'The Little Missus', born on 5 June 1870, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, died 9 June 1961. She was buried at Melbourne.
I just finished the book after returning home. It's a great backround to the trip. Attitudes have certainly changed. Earlier editions recount the "nigger hunts" carried out by the men of Elsey Station. A shameful period ... but they did happen. In 2000, the Mangarayi people received the title deeds to Elsey Station - their traditional home.
Aeneas Gunn, born 10 February 1862
He only was at Elsey for about twelve months when he died on 16 March 1903 from Blackwater Fever.
The Elsey homestead
The Kitchen of Cheon the Cook.
Floating around in the warm Bitter Springs in the Elsey National Park, near Mataranka, NT.
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