Huwa Maluka
In the Top End of the Northern Territory is a small town called Katheryne. It lies by the banks of a deep-cut river, and is surrounded by dusty savannah woodland, interspersed with rocky outcrops and hills here and there. The river rises in the Arnhem Land escarpment away to the east, and cuts deep through a high sandstone plateau to form gorges that are beautiful, spectacular and amazing, and rightly attract a lot of tourists during the dry season. Katheryne is a quiet, sleepy town, at least by some standards. The north road leads up to Darwin, 317 kms away, the south road goes on to Tennant Creek, 675 kms south, and the west road, eventually, gets you to Kunnunara, just over the WA border, another 515 kms. It is traditionally cattle country, and the highlight of the year is The Show, the agricultural show where all the ringers, i.e. the stockmen, come in from far and wide to show horses, compete in the camp draught, and try their hand at riding the bare back br...