Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Edith Falls

Edith Falls (Leliyn) is part of Nitmiluk National Park and situated 42km north of Katherine. It has two main camping grounds and we chose Edith Falls campground and what a great choice! We had a lovely camp site looking into the bush with a green grassy “backyard”, which was home for the next 3 nights. The Rees family camped for 2 nights with us and hiked and swam with us, before they travelled on.



Day 1 – We walked up to the Edith Falls plunge pool and then completed the 4km return walk to Upper Pool – Oh what a sight!



Day2 – We drove out to the other part of Nitmiluk National Park, Katherine Gorge – and hiked to the Southern Rockpool.



Day 3 –We met the Smith family who have a daughter Nicola, aged 10 and son Jason, aged 8 – they were also hiking the trail to Sweetwater Pool, 8.6km return trip. While walking through the bush we spotted wild pig diggings and were woken from our daze by a water buffalo trampling through the bush to escape from us - it was amazing! (Wish I was quick enough to get a photo)



Our favourite destination in this national park was Upper Pool, so we hiked back there for a swim before returning to camp.

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