The sun was up as we got going this morning & we shared our breakfast time with a friendly pair of butcherbirds & half a dozen blue winged kookaburras that have a nesting tree just above us, they are magnificent looking birds.

Our first venture today is to Zebedee Springs, a short walk from the car park to a set of hot water pools fed from a spring that comes out of the side of a cliff.  Its very popular to lay in the pools in water that is pleasantly warm & crystal clear.  The setting is absolutely beautiful with Livistonia palms growing very tall & crowded straight out of the creek bed & you are lying in water surrounded by these palm trees reaching to the sky.  El Questro close the springs at 12pm to the plebs so that the resort guests can use it in the afternoon & evening.  (They pay $2,000 per person per night, a minimum of two night stay at the resort).

Our next stop was El Questro gorge & it is a more challenging walk up the creek bed, climbing over larger rocks as the walls of the gorge get narrower. It is amazing that you are right in the heart of it all. One very pleasant aspect is that the gorge gets cooler the further you walk up it.  Words can’t describe how pretty it looks & again the photos don’t even come close to doing it justice.  The reward at the end of a long walk is a beautiful pool at the base of a small waterfall caused by two massive boulders blocking the gorge.  The walk continues past this spot but gets very strenuous so we decided on a swim in the crystal clear waters of this pool.  As I was walking into the water I was greeted by a small school of pan size fish that had no fear in coming very close.  There were the roots of a tree hanging down off the cliff face into the water, Tereza & Sue decided to play Tarzan on the vine.  The water was great in & we had the pool to ourselves for a long time.  We got out after some more walkers arrived & dried off by sunning ourselves on the warm rocks.  The walk back out of El Questro Gorge was just as rewarding as the walk in as the views were taken in from the opposite direction.  Again, the exit from the gorge was a rude shock as the heat beat down on us.  We headed back to campsite for lunch.  John, Sue & I had a siesta while Tereza read.

In the late afternoon we explored the camp a little more, viewed some works by the resident artist & he is very good (No, I did not buy any, I was tempted but Tereza made sure I had my swimmers with no pockets for my wallet).  We went to Chamberlain Gorge, a 3km expanse of waterhole that has a warning sign about crocodiles, so we decided not to go for a swim.  We took a photo of the sunset & headed back to camp where Tereza prepared a fantastic Steak Dianne for dinner with John & Sue preparing the vegies, again washed down by another nice red.  We were entertained during dinner by some flying foxes in the tree overhead & solved the political problems in Australia yet again.