Friday 15th July
What a huge day. We left at 8 this morning and I am currently typing this up on my iPhone at 6:15pm while Paul fills the tyres back up.
Our first stop as usual was to get yet more petrol (we have spent over $2500 on fuel so far) and the fabulous bakery in Jabiru for some fresh bread for lunch.
We spent 50km on a dirt road leading into twin falls and Jim Jim falls. Our first destination was twin falls which had a brilliant creek crossing - it was 70cm deep so we got to justify our snorkel purchase on the car. Paul got to drive through it going in but all the girls drove coming back out.
But more about the falls. It was an easy walk to get to where the shuttle boat leaves. Our group filled one of the boats so we got to jump ahead of the tour group coming in just behind us. What a beautiful boat ride so peaceful and the water was so crystal clear you could not only see the bottom but several big barramundi swimming past us it was such a shame we couldn't swim there due to a few resident crocs who apparently all that enthusiastic about being relocated.
Once we got ashore it was a walk across rocks to get to the base of the falls which were beautiful. 
We got to take the shuttle boat back and headed off to Jim Jim falls. After lunch in the car park we headed of on what Claire and I have dubbed the walk from hell. The sign at the start says 900m - yeah pigs eye it was! To you give you an idea of how hard this walk was it would take a really fit person who was used to climbing over boulders probably 45 mins so it took me just over an hour to wall 900m!!!!!
I can't even say it was worth the walk, don't get me wrong there is no doubt it was beautiful but after seeing the falls in Litchfield I didn't think these were as spectacular. So after climbing over all those boulders to get there it was heaven to dive into the freezing water to cool off and then we had to do the walk from hell in reverse to get out. I cannot tell you how relived I was when we got back to the car.
The absolute best part of the day and the thing that made the walk from hell completely worthwhile was the fantastic way my kids helped and encouraged each other I can't tell you how proud I was of them particularly Claire and Thomas. We have also decided that Luke is part mountain goat because of the way he scrambles across the rocks. Even sam is fairly surefooted on the rocks when we can convince him to get off paul's shoulders.
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