Friday, August 12, 2011

GRR - El Questro

El Questro is a million plus acre cattle station that has a few gorges to go and see. Our first stop was Emma gorge and the walk in was excellent with a great waterfall at the end of it. We went for a swim in the freezing cold water as a bit of a refresher and took some photos.

Emma Gorge Vid.



From there we went to the station homestead to find it packed full of people, the advice we had been given was correct. We had a quick look around there and read on a notice board that our next destination, Zebedee Springs, closes at 12 noon due to the high paying guests having exclusive access to the springs after 12. We heard that those guests pay up to $2000 a night to stay out there. We saw a bus load go in on our way out.

Zebedee Springs was nice, not as nice as some of the other springs we have been to but a welcome change to the freezing water we have been swimming in. The water in the spring was 30 deg so we found ourselves a little pool and soaked for a while.



Next up was Moonshine gorge walk. This was a 5k loop in the gorge then out to the Kimberley wilderness, the scenery was magnificent as we followed the river bed up and turned back on ourselves through the bush back to the car park. Well worth the effort to do this one if you are up this way.









Next walk we did was Amalia gorge, our last walk for the day as we were getting tired, we had done about 12k's. This too was a great walk with pools on the way up and a waterfall at the end. The water here was the coldest we have yet to experience.






We had an excellent time in El Questro having a look around, pity it was so busy! We will be back on the GRR tomorrow to head off to Ellenbrae.

Until then...........

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