Day 42 - Gunlom Falls

Today we crack the whip again as we decide to see one more thing in Kakadu before making our way out.  We head to Gunlom Falls.  There is 36km of gravel here that we debate about taking the van down, luckily we decide to unhook it and just take the car as the road is pretty bad.  When we arrive at Gunlom we decide to do the lookout walk before we swim.  Well, this is hard work.  A very steep incline straight up the side of the escarpment to the lookout at the top.  Quite scary too, Glen informs me that many people have been killed or injured doing this walk in the past, glad I didn't read that before heading up.  It was an awesome view from the top, but the walk down was even scarier than the walk up. 

You can see our car at the bottom in the car park.

The steep decent!!

We have a beautiful swim in the pool at the bottom.  We can see some people sitting at the top of the falls and just hope to goodness they don't fall down as it is quite a height.

A couple of back packers are sitting at the top here!!

We then stop at Mary River Roadhouse for a quick bite to eat as we have run out of food.  We stop at Katherine on the way through to refuel, do a grocery shop and do some Father's day shopping.  We decide to keep going to Mataranka even though we know it is a bit late.  As soon as we arrive in Mataranka the first thing the kids notice is the wild life.  The Mataranka Homestead caravan park has a number of local wallabies and peacocks that just wonder the park.  After tea the kids sit outside with a bowl full of carrot and hand feed the wallabies.  They think this is just awesome and take a million photos.  They love Mataranka already and we haven't even hit the hot springs yet!!!!  We manage to do about 430km today as well as sightseeing so we are pretty tired when we finally hit the sack.