Day 172

18 July 2013

Woke up to a misty dewey morning today. Was quite pretty but everything was wet which was a bit annoying. After arriving here we realized we actually didn't bring much food with us! Now sure how we left that off the shopping list but yes we will probably only last a few days before all food supplies run out and the bar is $32 per meal so we will have to weigh up whether its worth paying the money to hang around!

Rhett suggests that before you do any tracks, you go and see him to get a rundown on what you can and can't do etc so we headed to the bar to get the advice. We were just going close to camp today to have a look around but there is 1 million acres of exploring to do here so there is no shortage if you are a keen explorer! Mission today was to visit some pools for a swim and to do some fishing and drop the pots in to see if we could get any yabbies.

First stop took us to crocodile springs, there is a little river crossing here and the land is pretty rocky and sandy on the tracks. Nice little spot but no swimming.

Next we were off to the pools which consist of Tallawah, Tristan and Emerald Pools and Wildfire Gorge. Signage is pretty limited out here and we found it hard to follow the map they give you as a lot of tracks aren't marked on there so it is pretty easy to be lost and have no idea if you are heading in the right direction! Made it to Emerald Pools and this is meant to be a nice swimming hole, I am a bit fussy I will admit but there was nothing really inviting about this pool and it was quite small so we decided we would hold on and find a better pool to swim in.

Short walk to wildfire gorge and while it was pretty, in comparison it wouldn't blow wind up the Kimberley gorges ass! You can swim in the pools and while it looked ok, from video he showed us yesterday we thought we were holding out for something better.

Next off to the Eagles Nest billabong which is where they suggest fishing for barra and putting in your pots. They have a boat moored at the billabong with paddles for anyone to use so we pulled up, loaded our fishing gear into the boat and headed off for a paddle around. Beautiful billabong, was so nice paddling up it and flicking a few lures, I managed to catch a few branches but other than that the fish hate us! We caught a turtle in one of our pots which luckily we pulled up before it drowned! Another epic fail!

Checked out rock falls and this is another spot they suggested to get red claw and cheribin so put pots in while we had some lunch. Still nothing, Joel was getting desperate so he decided to try a sausage on a stick to see if he could entice something out and while it would be a pretty cool story if he did catch something, he didn't! Haha

Stinking hot we thought we would head to the water slide (a natural smooth rock slide that has water running through it and you can slide down into a pool below) which Rhett had showed us on his computer and said there should still be water to slide us into the water below. Sounds perfect so we drive there, 500m walk over rocky hilly terrain and the only thing that stopped us from getting lost was that fellow walkers had stacked rocks up to indicate which way to go, without these we would have been lost for sure! Made it to the slide and there was no water running on the slide which meant the water below was pretty yucky cuz there was no water flow. Another shame but what can you do, you turn around and head back to camp! We were out from 9-5 today so we were absolutely buggered. Headed back to camp for a fire and some pork roast in the camp oven.

From today's trip I think we have realized something...when you travel and see everything at once you become a bit complacent with what you see. Now if we hadn't just been to the Kimberley's I probably would have thought what we saw today was brilliant but we found ourselves going "oh is that it?" which sounds really bad and snobby but yea that's just how we felt about it. Hoping tomorrow might find us some new great places!

Carly & Joel

 

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