Category Archives: Swimming

Gubara – Kakadu

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Gubara is a fairly long bushwalk followed by an amazing swimming hole. It’s a good 5km on way, so be ready for the walk with water. The swimming hole is beautiful, the walk back always seems a lot longer

HOWEVER it has since been brought to my attention that swimming there isn’t always such a good idea.

It is generally closed for swimming in the wet as there might be crocs, the walk is usually open. And during the dry they often say it best to miss it due to the algae inside a stagnant pool.

I’ve done it a few times, each time I relied on the advice of friends, rather than me checking out the access report.

I would not recommend this 🙂

Butterfly Gorge – Location

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Butterfly Gorge is amazing, and relatively unknown.

It is about 2.5 hours from Darwin, and you get to do a little 4WD track too that is a lot of fun, but fairly easy. It takes a little bit of finding, even once you are there. My biggest tip for this place is that, because you need to swim around to get there, you should figure out what you are going to do with your car keys. Unless you have an old car you probably can’t get it wet, if you want to leave they on the beach well… look I have never heard of anything happening, but I haven’t done it.

Personally I use a combination lock to my car that I put my car key in. You could (depending on your car) get a metal only key cut and put it in your pocket, and keep the real one inside.

Anyway. You will be getting up and out of lots of water holes, and walking over rocks, some wet, so wear proper footwear. A bottle of water or two is handy too, so you can spend a few hours there.

It is a great place to visit, I’ve been there a few times and only once had the ‘loud jerks with an esky’ that love to ruin swimming holes, usually it is pretty empty. It is also very hard to photograph, so trust me, the snaps don’t do it justice.


Me at the entrance

Edith Falls – Location

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Edith Falls is roughly halfway to Katherine from Darwin, probably a bit closer to Katherine. It is a great campsite. There are three main pools to swim in. The first is a 100m flat walk to the campsite. It is a very large rockpool, it can be hard to enter without good footwear.

The second is the main one, it is pretty short, from memory 300m, however it is pretty steep and quite rocky in sections. But it is worth it, as the pools are great.

 


The second pool & Edith itself


The third pool