Tuesday 26 June 2012 Edith Falls

Total Km Travelled – Nil

Comments -  Luke Baker

This morning I said goodbye to Lleyton and his family again We then headed on our 10km walk around Edith Falls. First we walked to Sweetwater pool where I had a swim, it was freezing cold . At the top there is a large rock that you can jump off into SweetWater pool. We had lunch and headed back to the larger waterfall for another swim.
Comments – Dad
We farewelled Lleyton’s family again as Mel had to catch a plane, we had a good night and hope to catch up again somewhere on the road with them. We then headed out on the long Lleilyn walk to SweetWater which was a very long walk through the bush with all of us looking for Joe Blake’s the whole way, luckily we didn’t  see any. There were a lot of beautiful wild flowers along the way in myriad of colours. After what seemed to take forever we arrived at a small waterfall where a lady informed us that we still had a fair way to go. We soldered on and eventually arrived to find a small waterfall about four foot high, not really worth the long journey though the water hole and rock formations were nice. We all had a swim and a jump of the rock platform followed by some lunch. Luke caught some small yabbies but were too small to eat. After we were rested we headed back to the previous falls for a quick dip to stay cool for the next leg. When we eventually arrived at the waterfall above Edith Falls it was a large fall with a great swimming hole, which made the trip well worth the effort.  Would recommend to only do the short loop to anyone doing this as  is the best section with great swimming and photo spots. When we finally arrived back at camp we grabbed our chairs, some ales and headed down to relax taking in the view of Edith Falls one last time while Luke had another swim. Luke is certainly a little champion soldiering on along these walks. We all hit the hay early ready for the next day.