Kakadu National Park August 22

Kakadu National Park is a world heritage listed park for its cultural and ecological values and is about 20,000 sq ams . We drove into the park from the south and you drive through it in a loop and then on to Darwin.
Our first stop was to Gunlom Falls where you can hike up to an amazing plunge pool. It was only listed on Trip Advisior last week in the top 10 plunge pools in the world!!!
Firstly however we had to negoiate the drive in. The road off the main paved road is 39kms of dirt, corrugated with big holes to dodge. They say 4wd only and you must have a high clearance caravan .
We had checked out comments on Wiki camps and decided to go. Again we didn't come all this way to sit in safe camp grounds seeing little because we didn't want to get our rigs dirty!!!

After lowering the tyre pressures and covering all the vents in the caravan we were off!!

The drive took us one and half hours and it was rather bad in places but we just took it slowly and finally got there.On opening the van it was good to see no red dust and all was in tact. We wondered over to the falls which were not very flowing but still impressive because of the height. We did have a quick swim, they were pretty cold and you were always on the lookout,although there were some locals also so that a good sign. I looked and saw some people at the top, thinking that will be us tomorrow. Its a very, very steep 1 km climb and needed to be done in the morning as it was 3pm now and over 35deg. The camp site was really big and you looked up at the high cliffs of Gunlom. 

Signs that say it all

Gunlom Falls and pool.  The walk is up to the plunge pool is up the high cliff you can see