Back to Gunlom

As we had to leave Gunlom in the Kakadu National Park because of the fire, we never made to hike up to the plunge pools at the top so it was always our intention to return when it was all clear and open again.
We decided because the road is so bad not to take the caravan so stayed at a campsite about 12kms from the road in at Mary Road House. It was a large campsite but hardly anyone was there as the Roadhouse has closed down and it looks pretty run down. Funny though it has a wonderful swimming pool which is kept well cleaned as so we decided to stay 2 nights so that we could spend the day at Gunlom.
The drive into Gunlom of course was much easier without the caravan and only took 35 mins as opposed to well over an hour.
The climb up to the pools is extremely steep, I did feel like a mountaineer and we had a pack each with food,drink etc and of course our swimming gear. They pools are about 250 ft from the bottom of the waterfall.
Well it was so worth the trouble of returning and the climb, just breath taking. There are about 5 pools at the top you can swim in but it is the pool that overlooks the view that is very special. There weren't many people for the first hour but they all started to arrive and by the time we left after 3 hrs it was busy, not crowded as its quite spread out.

The climb

The pools from the very top, the waterfall goes over the last pool down 250ft.

The pool and view