Cutta Cutta Caves

South of Katherine, Cutta Cutta is one of the few tropical limestone caves open to visitors in Australia, and the only public cave in the Northern Territory. Guided tours pass through warm, humid chambers of tall columns and delicate straws, home to rare orange horseshoe bats and the ghost bat, and sometimes to the brown tree snakes that hunt them. The cave floods in the wet and closes through the monsoon, so tours run in the dry season only. The name comes from a Jawoyn phrase meaning 'many stars', for the way lamplight once scattered across the crystalled ceiling.