Our last day at El Questro has proven to be busy.

An early start saw us attempt the Amalia Gorge walk, there is a great swimming hole beneath a big early wet season waterfall. While not a long walk it follows a rocky dry creek bed with a couple of creek crossings where the water pools up in the dry.

Homealone pulled out 20 or so minutes into the walk and returned to base. Allthego continued.

The walk got a little more difficult at the Ochre Pool, a deep pool a little over half way to the end. To go further though one had to negotiate a narrow ledge with the help of a chain.

Allthego decided to go no further, but did manage some snaps of the pool and cliffs here. On the way back the sun had moved more overhead and lit up the very red cliff lines beside the creek. Would have been good to have got to the end, but better safe than sorry!

Back at the campground for lunch before joining an afternoon cruise on a deep water gorge segment of the Chamberlain River, a tributary of the Pentecost River.

The trip was narrated by a young indigenous guide, Buster. He did a really good job of describing the features of the river environment, vegetation snd animal. Helped us pick out the small rock wallabies that cling to the gorge walls hopping around in out of the small caves.

A bit of fish feeding too. We were the ‘victims’ of the Archer fish, ‘spitting’ a stream of water at us as small food pellets were held up and then dropped overboard. Some other fish also seen including cat fish and a big barramundi.

Cat fish are a tasty feed in these parts and have been given a more ‘palatable’ name, the Silver Cobbler. Buster commented that the price had also changed, gone up considerably with the new name!

A couple of days before we had gone down without the van to check out the Pentecost River crossing. Allthego did a ‘dry run’ test back and forth across, while Homealone took a video for the record! Here it is.

It was now time to move on from El Questro and make the fabled crossing of the Pentecost River with the van on the back and continue along the Gibb to our next stop at Home Valley Station.