Guess what I did today? That's right a walk over rocks! Seriously though it was a relatively easy walk until the end when we climbing up and down cliffs oh but so beautiful when I finally got there.
The kids had a great time jumping off the waterfall into the crystal clear water. One of the great things about this walk was you started by having to swim across the river (we all ignored the fact that there had been three freshwater crocs sunning themselves there yesterday). 
It was really cool you walked down to the edge of the river and there were big polystyrene boxes to put your things in and swim them across. There is a little dinghy that you can use if you don't want to swim which I thought would be good for me because I had clothes over my swimmers and was carrying the camera. When we got there the dinghy was on the other side of the river so Tom being the wonderful son he is said he would swim over an get it.
In the end it was Tom Luke Josh and Riley in the boat trying to row it back over with the two planks of wood that were oars. As Michael said, it didn't look like it was going to make it any time soon as it was being captained by the pirates of penzance. Josh and Riley abandoned ship half way over and poor Tom. who was doing really well rowing, was being hampered by Lukes own special brand of help. Paul ended up swimming out and pushing it into shore.
On the way back it was much more pleasant to swim across and by the time I got there I was so hot I swam across in my clothes.
We could easily have spent the whole day, there but the time came to walk out so we could have lunch and pack up the camper trailers. After a quick lunch and pack up we drove the 7 km back to the roadhouse to get yet more petrol (our most expensive yet at over $2 per litre. It was the on to Silent Grove, a campsite 10 km from Bell Gorge.
The Garments were the first to arrive because the others had decided to walk into another gorge on the way. So the pressure was on us to not only find a good site but also try and save enough room for the others. I think the place we found fit the most essential criteria - close to the toilets and close to the tap.
The campsite is called Silent Grove, although after all the kids got here it probably needs to be renamed 'not so silent grove'. Once we set up it was journal writing time for the kids. Claire and Tom have been really good at doing their journals although Toms can be a bit light on sometimes, Luke however is finding it very difficult to do because there are always footy's to kick or rocks to climb or rivers to fall into.
All this walking is making us exhausted though, we were all in bed by 8:30. One of these days we really should stay awake longer than the kids.
No comments:
Post a Comment