Day 63 - Emma Gorge

 Day 62 - Monday - 20/7/2026

This morning we drove to El Questro, it was a short and bumpy dirt road with a few creek crossings luckily there was a grader parked on the side of the road that had been fixing the road. It was a pretty big caravan park with lots of caravans and nice, shady sites. Once we had set up, we went for a swim in the river.

Day 63 - Tuesday - 21/7/2026

Today we drove to Emma Gorge. From the resort we did a walk through the gorge to the top waterfall and plunge pool. The walk was mainly over loose rocks and large boulders alongside the river where we had to do some rock hopping to cross over it without getting our shoes wet. 

Walking over the creek

The last 100m of the walk was a steep climb up to the top pool. The gorge was pretty big with tall walls cutting straight down to the ground where there was a lot of different vegetation. There were two tall waterfalls one being moderately powerful and the other so weak the wind was blowing it around. 

Emma falls

At the pool there were a lot of people but not in the water and we were wondering why, we soon found out when we got in the water because it was FREEZING. Since it was so cold we quickly swam over to a rock near the waterfall and then swam under the falls. 

Swimming near the freezing falls

Once we got back to shore, we discovered a small warm pool of water which we stayed in for a while and then we climbed up some rocks and discovered the water was coming from a crack in the rock.

Sitting at the warm water

Then we clambered our way back down the track until we got to the resort where we went for a swim in the swimming pool.

Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:04 PM

    That water would be so nice

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  2. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM

    that looks like so much fun. the weather looks way better then here

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  3. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM

    yes

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  4. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM

    cool waterfall

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  5. AnonymousJuly 29, 2026 at 4:15 PM

    was the warm water relaxing

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    1. DanielJuly 31, 2026 at 3:36 PM

      Aa bit but other people were wating so we had to get out.

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