Gunlom Falls to Umbawarra Gorge - Day 106, 23/07/2016


Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife.

This morning the kids woke up fairly early and sung Anna Happy Birthday and gave her all of her pressies, after lots of snuggles we got up and we made Anna some breakfast before packing up and heading out of Kakadu and onto Umbawarra Gorge which we hoped would be much quieter than Gunlom Falls.

On the way we stopped in at Pine Creek and took Anna to the Lazy Lizard Resort where we had woodfired pizza's and a few beers to celebrate her Birthday. After filling up with diesel and grabbing a few supplies we made the short run from Pine Creek down to Umbawarra Gorge. Once we arrived at the campground we found it almost full and managed to squeeze into one of the last sites, our hopes of a quiet camp were dashed...

After setting up we walked down to the gorge and checked it out, the swimming holes here were pretty small but still deep enough for us to all cool off. We did plan to stay 2 nights here but decided that a packed campground and average gorge wasn't for us so we will move on tomorrow to find somewhere else.

Distance Traveled = 128 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 33,819 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 237






































































































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