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Speaker 1: I know that there's a lot of you who are

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Speaker 1: probably wondering what you're going to get up to for

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Speaker 1: your long weekend, and a lot of you heading out camping,

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Speaker 1: some of you keen to go out for a bit

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Speaker 1: of a swim somewhere where there's not crocodiles, and joining

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Speaker 1: us on the line to tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about some of what's going on in the territories,

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Speaker 1: different parks and water holes.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is Julie.

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Speaker 1: Heron, who is the district manager of Top End Parks.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Julie, let's try that again. I'm not too

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Speaker 1: sure what's going on with my phone line there. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: I have got Julie on the line, Julie, can you

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Speaker 1: hear me?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, very well, how are you good? Thank you, Julie.

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Speaker 1: Lots on on the weekend and lots of people wanting

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Speaker 1: to head out and about and get into nature.

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Speaker 2: I guess you'd say, yeah, no.

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Speaker 3: Perfect weather for this weekend. It's really really turned it on.

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Speaker 3: Nice weather for camping. So I'm sure a lot of

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Speaker 3: people are going to get out and about this weekend

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Speaker 3: and enjoy the do your Top End and what the

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Speaker 3: top End has to offer.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely Julie.

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Speaker 1: One of the areas that we've all been keeping a

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Speaker 1: bit of an eye on is Butterfly Gorge.

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Speaker 2: Have you caught that crocodile yet? Oh?

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Speaker 1: We seem to be having a bit of an issue

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Speaker 1: with our phone line there. Let me see if I

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Speaker 1: can Sorry, Julie, can you hear us again?

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Speaker 3: I can hear you again. Yet. We didn't have a

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Speaker 3: bad line, so.

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Speaker 2: That's all right. Have you caught that croc yet?

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Speaker 3: The rangers were down there again this morning to check

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Speaker 3: on the trap that I haven't heard back from them

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Speaker 3: as yet to see whether they've caught it or not.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, hopefully not too far away from being able

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Speaker 1: to get that crocodile and being able to have a

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Speaker 1: swim again or out there at Butterfly Gorge.

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Speaker 2: Is it a pretty popular spot? Julie, Oh, I don't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think maybe it probably is, but we don't

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Speaker 3: really know how popular it is. It does. The Faily

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Speaker 3: region as a whole is pretty popular, so I'm assuming

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Speaker 3: as people in that area though, they'll pop down the

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Speaker 3: Butterfly Gorge for a look, because it is quite stunning

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Speaker 3: to do that walk and have a look at that gorge.

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Speaker 3: It's quite different from anything else they've got around the place.

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Speaker 1: And Julie, what is what other you know spots are

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Speaker 1: are well worth a look this weekend to those out

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well this field is always a popular spot, but

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Speaker 3: all the camping sites are fully booked for this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Just a reminder if you have got a site books

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Speaker 3: at Central Value or Channel Point that you need to

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Speaker 3: pick up the key by Friday afternoon. But there's still

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Speaker 3: camping sites available at Umberware Gorge, which is you know,

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Speaker 3: probably a couple of hundred k's down the track. If

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Speaker 3: you haven't been out Samya River, there's a beautiful camp

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Speaker 3: site called Cousins Campground which is a bit of a

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Speaker 3: secret spot that not too many people know about, which

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Speaker 3: is quite lovely on the banks of these sort of

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Speaker 3: the Mary River wetlands. Yeah, it's still camping available at

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Speaker 3: Nit my luck and also Elsie if you want willing

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Speaker 3: to do a bit more of a drive.

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Speaker 2: So still plenty plenty to get out and about and do.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you are booked or if you are staying

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Speaker 1: at Central Valley in Litchfield, you do need to make

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Speaker 1: sure that you've collected those keys, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct, mate. Yeah, you can only get in

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Speaker 3: if you've got the key to the date.

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Speaker 1: And so when you have to have those by and

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Speaker 1: how many people have you usually got out there sort

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Speaker 1: of you know on a weekend like this coming weekend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fully booked.

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Speaker 3: So the whole all the thirty two camps bullybook for

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Speaker 3: this weekend. And yeah, you've got to pick up the

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Speaker 3: key by four pm Friday afternoon from the JAPE office

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Speaker 3: or if you're coming from in South the Catherine office.

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Speaker 3: Parks Castine office also has some keys term available And Julie.

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Speaker 1: I know it's a busy weekend, you know now that

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Speaker 1: the dry season feels like it finally arrive this morning

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Speaker 1: everybody and everyone's like, thank goodness, no doubt that.

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Speaker 2: You know that all of the.

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Speaker 1: Park staff are going to have a busy weekend too.

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Speaker 1: How has it been since you've you know, like since

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Speaker 1: you implemented you know, the booking system for the campsites.

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Speaker 2: Has it been going pretty smoothly?

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, there was a lot of people that

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Speaker 3: sort of had a bit of a negative thoughts about it. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: it's been really good. We have campground hopes some of

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Speaker 3: our campgrounds in Lead Shield and they're reporting that, you know,

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Speaker 3: over ninety percent of people have got their bookings already

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Speaker 3: and that they're really happy to be able to have

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Speaker 3: the opportunity to know that there's going to be a

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Speaker 3: spot available to them when they get there, and people

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Speaker 3: that you haven't quite happy to go back into Bachelor

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Speaker 3: or somewhere and see whether there's any sites available. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's been fantastic and yet really really good feed that

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Speaker 3: with the whole thing so far, which is really promising.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good to hear.

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Speaker 1: How I also know we've had a few people get

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Speaker 1: in contact with us wondering when they might get the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go out to the Douglas Daily Hot Springs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So the negotiations are still ongoing in that space yep.

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Speaker 3: So it's subject to the finalization of the land claim

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Speaker 3: and until that the terms of that joint management have

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Speaker 3: been agreed unfortunately there WK.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe maybe a little earlier or maybe towards

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Speaker 1: towards next year.

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Speaker 3: It all depends on how the's negotiations conversations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the end yep.

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Speaker 1: Well, Julie, it sounds like there's lots on and sounds

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Speaker 1: like your cruise are pretty busy as well. Still trying

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Speaker 1: to get that crocodile.

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Speaker 2: Out there at Butterfly Gorge.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they certainly are. The crop Management team have been

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Speaker 3: helping us out as well, so yeah, we've been pretty

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Speaker 3: busy trying to get that get that crocodile out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, Julie Heron, lovely to speak to you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time. And yeah, I hope

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Speaker 1: the crew has a good weekend. I know it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a busy one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks you too, Katie, thank you.