After a very windy and cold night, we set off this morning to the visitors centre to have a look at the display. Whilst Lisa and I found some really interesting factual information, the kids were hell bent on destroying the place, so we stayed for approx 1 hour and decided it was time to brave the gorge.
We drove around to the day use area, and walked the short distance to the gorge entry point. Lisa was freaking out about the kids descending, but we all made it to the bottom safe and sound. There was a challenging walk over the rocks to Circular Pool. When we arrived, we sat and had some lunch, but there was a brisk breeze blowing and the water felt antarctic to say the least, so we abstained from having a swim. In January there was flooding from the cyclones, and a lot of the vegetation has been knocked over.
We than made our way back through the bottom of the gorge to Fortescue Falls. The kids were very excited to see a real waterfall, and to be at a place that they have on a poster in their bedrooms back home. After climbing out of Fortescue Falls we walked across to Fern Pool and the kids and I had a swim. The water was still very cold, but it was nice to feel clean again.
The climb back out of Fortescue Falls was somewhat challenging, but rewarding at the same time. The kids are raving about how cool it has been to have been down the gorge today. I think we will all be sleeping well tonight. Whilst in the gorge we saw butterflies, dragonflies, flies, fish, a goanna, plenty of birds and parrots.
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