Gunlom

In the morning we got up for an early mid-morning swim at the rockpool which was lovely: no-one else was there and I swam out across the pool into the shade underneath the cliffs with the waterfall gushing away nearby until I floated into something which gave me the fright of my life until I realised it was a pandanus frond.

At the shop afterwards buying ice cream we met a family from Melbourne who were spending a year traveling around Australia. They were going to a Park-organised Cultural Activity and we went over to join them doing some pandanus-weaving.

We made little bracelets from the palm fronds which was quite difficult... the fronds had to be stripped to make string and stuffing, very fiddly.

We thought it would take an hour or two but it ended up taking most of the day which was entertaining but meant that the 4 wheel driving got canned.

Instead we climbed up to the top of the waterfall where there were more rockpools to swim in.

We climbed further up and went for a swim in a larger pool with the Melbournians. The pool gave way to a gorge as we swam upstream, Eloise with arms around my neck.

The gorge further narrowed and we ended up in an amazing gorge with water rushing over the wall at the top end with a multitude of tiny frogs basking in the cool spray.

We climbed down again as the sun set and made it down just as it was getting dark.

Good sleeping that night.