We had great views of a long tailed finch this morning in the campground and a rainbow bee eater was also quite keen to show himself off at close quarters. How lucky were we!
We packed up at a leisurely pace and headed off up the track for the last 10km or so. The track continued to be fairly rough and corrugated with some deepish water crossings as well. The walking path in to Bell gorge from the car park (about 1 km) is also quite rocky with a good amount of rock hopping required (and careful foot placement)
The path comes to a flat rock area and from here you can look down into the falls themselves.
If you choose to negotiate your way over the flowing water somehow (generally by stepping down across thigh deep water) you can rock hop some more and clamber down to the base of the falls.
There you can swim. Trev really enjoyed this swim under the falls and out to the next couple of pools. I took photos of him from above and then swam in the warmer top pools above the falls.
I was lucky enough to see a beautiful goanna as I waited for his return.
We rock hopped out and made our way back to the GRR where we turned right once again.
We had a very hot stop at Lennard Gorge, where we traipsed a few km in searing heat. Ran out of water before we returned. We had only a distant view of the waterfall at teh end and no way to get down to the water. The walk now ends at a lookout.
The road in to Mount Hart is about 50km long. This road was quite rocky in places and corrugations were bad in parts too. There are also a number of rocky or muddy crossings.
On arrival we found out that Al and Zita were not arriving today. Despite initial promises the tow truck will not pick up the van till tomorrow. We booked ourselves in for fish and chips tea tomorrow night (the pizza option was already booked out) and, after a cold drink (cider and ginger beer) went about 1 km up the road to the grassy campsite beside the river.
We had a quick dip at the swimming hole with a ladder to get out. More crimson finches were happily playing here.
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