Edith Falls Campground Leliyn

Arrive and go straight to our familiar Site No. 50 and settle in and set up. By the time we're finishing this, Lisa and Tony have arrived and are settling on their campsite No. 20. We're now ready to go for a swim and check out the lower pool of water here, so agree to meet up there when Lisa and Tony ready too.
This place is great - just beautiful, and the lower pool is spacious and a delight to swim in (sandy bottom with clear running water - and good mix of shallow and deep). We stay relaxing in the water until we all feel it's time to head back for drinks and tea preparation.
We meet up for our shared tea around a provided BBQ - barramundi supplied by us from Ronnie, spuds with bolognaise sauce and extras supplied by Lisa and Tony - bolognaise sauce made by their friend Keith (who we met again last night on our Darwin Harbour Cruise). Enjoy our meal together - great company, before heading back to ourcown caravans to tidy up and go to bed. We've arranged to all meet at 7.30am to do the loop walk (2.6km) which will include a higher swimming spot.
Have to say Roger and I didn't get the best of sleeps, quite warm without the use of Ronnie's power to use our air conditioner!! Thank goodness for the fan in our van or it would be worse. So we get up early as arranged, we dress in our bathers and sensible footwear for the walk. Meet Lisa and Tony on time, and we all enjoy the loop walk with a lovely swim at the 'upper pool' - wonderful floating about with our water noodles. Come back to camp to have a cook up of bacon and eggs etc, around the same communal BBQ we used last night. After breakfast Lisa and Tony pack up and get ready to leave - they're heading for Mataranka today. They kindly take our 'unnecessary' stuff (2 camp chairs, and a box of my incidentals - books, pamphlets, spare sheets) with them to take back to Dunkeld when they go and use our place for a holiday break 😊🤞 Lisa and Tony come and say 'goodbye' before they head off just after 11am.
Roger and I just relaxing around camp for the morning. Roger doing a few 'tidy up' jobs and I'm just catching up on writing this. As breakfast was more like brunch today, we're not fussed for lunch so we head off to spend some of the afternoon swimming and hanging out near the water. This was a relaxing afternoon - when out of the water I sat in one of our small camp chairs and read, while Rog lay on his towel (both of us in the shade) and had naps. Eventually head back to our camp to have drinks and think about tea. Chicken snitzels with salad. Then we both go have showers before tidying up, doing dishes. Very warm in our caravan, but too many insects outside, so again glad we've got a fan. Relaxing before bed.
Slept better and wake up 6.20am wanting to go for a walk to Sweetwater pool - it's a 8.6km return so I need to go early before it warms up too much and be back in time for our 11am departure time. Leave Rog to have a 'lie in' and start off on the trail around 6.40am. I go in my bathers and slathered in sunscreen with my faithful camelbak backpack and sneakers. Enjoy this walk - can see why doing the Jatbula hike is so popular - this is the last section of that hike - when I reach Sweetwater pool, it is stunning (larger than I expected) but it is before 8am so I decide I'll return and then have a swim. So that's what I do, go to our caravan 1st, (now 9am) have breakfast - muesli and yoghurt with a cuppa - then get organised to have a shower on my way back from my swim, go for a swim, then shower, Help with the final packing in the caravan, then off we go at around 10.30am. Now heading for Katherine.Baca lagi