On 18^th August it was bye-bye Kathryn and north towards Darwin for 40 or so kms then east 22 kms to Edith Falls. This place had been talked up by various folk we had met but the reality was not a disappointment – it was better. Excellent bush camp site a mere 5 minutes walk to the lower pool, ideal for a cooling dip. Marco and Ursula, a kiwi couple we met on the last night at Kathryn, joined us in there.

The first morning we walked up to the Upper Falls where to wallow and swim in the pool below the waterfall and as the photo below suggests, under the waterfall for some of us.

The next morning we made the longer trek (90 minutes) up to Sweet Water, another pool and set of falls. Marco and Ursula we keener to avoid the heat and set off before us and somehow we failed to connect at the top. Louise and I had found this beautiful set of mini-falls and pools where we wallowed and revelled in the complete lack of people.

Thus it was that after 3 nights at Edith Falls, we rode for 3 hours north to Darwin and our new Kiwi mates rode south to Kathryn as an overnight stop on their way to Alice Springs.