Yellow water is great if you own a boat. Get out on the wetland and see the crocs and water lillys.
It is expensive for what it is, and if you own a boat I wouldn’t bother. Honestly not the best thing to do, but it is pretty unique.
Category Archives: TRAILS – Camping & The Outdoors
Nourlangie – Kakadu
Nourlangie is a series of rock where indigenous people used to live for tens of thousands of years. It is also home to some terrific rock art, and a reasonable view. It is very accessible, all the time. The walk is really easy. As a consequence this is sort of place you will go once and love it, but end up taking every interstate visitor to a million times. It sort of lost its sheen with me, but if you are in Kakadu once, and you are interested in the ancient rock art, it is it worth it.
Butterfly Gorge – Location
Butterfly Gorge is amazing, and relatively unknown.
It is about 2.5 hours from Darwin, and you get to do a little 4WD track too that is a lot of fun, but fairly easy. It takes a little bit of finding, even once you are there. My biggest tip for this place is that, because you need to swim around to get there, you should figure out what you are going to do with your car keys. Unless you have an old car you probably can’t get it wet, if you want to leave they on the beach well… look I have never heard of anything happening, but I haven’t done it.
Personally I use a combination lock to my car that I put my car key in. You could (depending on your car) get a metal only key cut and put it in your pocket, and keep the real one inside.
Anyway. You will be getting up and out of lots of water holes, and walking over rocks, some wet, so wear proper footwear. A bottle of water or two is handy too, so you can spend a few hours there.
It is a great place to visit, I’ve been there a few times and only once had the ‘loud jerks with an esky’ that love to ruin swimming holes, usually it is pretty empty. It is also very hard to photograph, so trust me, the snaps don’t do it justice.
Me at the entrance
Reynolds River Track – Litchfield
Reynolds is a beautiful 4WD track, great varying scenary, not too difficult but enough to keep you interested.
The big “x-factor” is that damn river crossing. It is generally 600mm to 700mm (check the access report) the bottom isn’t that firm, you can’t walk it due to crocs, and there is a big bend it in, so it is difficult to know you are going the correct way. There are also two different routes, the first time I went one was roped off… so I never went that way.
So depends on how bad you want to do it… I’ve done it twice and doubt I’ll do it again.
DROP YOUR TYRE PRESSURE! If you don’t do it on the track, make sure you do it across the river.
Surprise Creek Falls – Litchfield
Surprise Creek is a great spot. A few rock pools, they are pretty deep too, so (if you test the depth first!) you can generally jump off. For the older crowd they can be a little difficult to get in and out of, but you can swim below them.
