Day 53 - Gunlom

 Day 53 - Saturday - 11/7/2026

Today we released our mantis and then drove to Burunkguy were we set up and then drove over the extremely corrugated gravel road to Gunlom Falls. We had lunch and then walked over to the bottom plunge pool at the huge waterfall; we couldn’t swim there though because there might be crocs in the water.

Gunlom Falls

Then we climbed a tiring 500 metres up to the top of the waterfall where we went for a swim in the refreshing water. There was a small waterfall with warm water gushing down it onto our backs, there were also a few deep cracks in the rocks at the bottom of the waterfall were that we dropped rocks down into to see how deep they were. 


Simming under the waterfall

We also swan near a small drop into another pool of water witch then dropped the 500 metres down to the ground but from where my dad took the picture you would have thought it was a much bigger drop.


Us at the falls

Once we drove back home, we went on a short walk to Alligator River. There wasn’t that much water, well at least that’s what we thought. It was a bit of a trick because were the walk ended there was a dry riverbed that we could walk on, so we went to the other side of it to see if the river was further on. Once we got across, we found another dry riverbed, so we crossed that. We found yet another riverbed this time with water in it and you could see lots of fish and hear lots of birds. 


Alligator River


Then we walked back to the caravans, and Seb caught a skink which we kept overnight.


Day 54 - Sunday - 12/7/2026


Today we left Burunkuguy and drove to Victoria River Roadhouse. On the way we stopped at Pine Creek where we saw a bunch of hooded parrots. 


Hooded Parrot

Then we drove to Katherine where we had lunch and went shopping. Finally, we arrived at Victoria River Roadhouse where we walked down to the old bridge as sunset. There were a bunch of Fairy martins flying around and we had lots of fun chucking rocks into the water.


Me and Seb on the bridge

Blue-winged Kookaburra and the river (we saw 5 of them)





Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM

    What an exciting time you are having!

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  2. AnonymousJuly 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM

    This is a really interesting blog. Ros

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  3. AnonymousJuly 23, 2026 at 4:12 PM

    the parrot looks so pretty

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  4. AnonymousJuly 23, 2026 at 4:13 PM

    why does the kookaburra have blue wings?

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    1. DanielJuly 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM

      because it's a different species of kookaburra called a blue-winged kookaburra.

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