Day 11 - Ormiston Gorge

Day 10 - Friday - 29/5/2026

Today we drove from Alice Springs to Ormiston Gorge and on the way there we stopped at a few places. The first place we stopped at was called Ellery Creek Big Hole. It was a very short walk into a rock hole with lots of water and rocks. A few people had recently been swimming but sadly we couldn't. Next, we stopped at the Ochre Pits where the aboriginals collected the ochre, ground it up and added water to make it like paint for ceremonies. Then we reached Ormiston Gorge where we went on a ranger guided walk to a lookout where we could see a lot of trees and the riverbed with lots of rocks and people swimming. The walk took about an hour except we didn't do the whole thing, we just went up to the lookout and back instead of through the gorge. 


Day 11 - Saturday - 30/5/2026

Today I finally got to sleep in, so I was glad about that. At about ten we went on the same walk as yesterday but this time we did the whole thing where we ended up going in the big gorge. 

Me and Seb at Ormiston Gorge


It had a lot of big rocks, sand and water which we had to cross at one point because there was nowhere else we could go. The walk took us about 2.5 hours to complete with the start being the easiest because it didn't have so many rock to climb over and had stairs, but the end had heaps of slippery rocks and water to cross resulting in the three younger kids with drenched shorts but mine completely dry. 

Crossing the water


Then we had lunch and headed back to the gorge this time with wetsuits and lilos ready for a swim, the only problem was that the water was really cold, so I stayed on my lilo the whole time. Then we went back to the caravan and played with the rocks.


Swimming on the lilos
 

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