1st June 2014 El Questro

Today we plan to do a couple of gorges, so after breakfast,  grab a few snacks and drinks and time to get the legs pumping.
We went to El Questro gorge first, to get to the one's we are going to today, there is a deep river crossing, only suitable for high clearance 4wds, ours managed ok, no water in the doors.
The trail was very rocky, it felt like climbing up one of side of the rock and down the other with some of them, there was magnificent palms and ferns, when you wanted to look about you had to stand still as it was crucial that you watched where you put your foot.
The effort was worth it when we got to the swimming hole, we didn't go to the top one, as the young people were having trouble with climbing up a very large slippery area, we thought we would just swim and enjoy the view of paradise.
The trail was approx 6km, so after a swim and rest we headed for the car for the next one.
Moonshine gorge which is approximately 71/2km  turned out to be rockier and harder walking once you were into it a little way.
The trail once again followed the river with lots of lovely spots to cool off in crystal clear water, and like the other gorges very tropical in appearance, cool in the shade of the palms and trees.
The information on this trail suggested that it not be done in the middle of the day as the trail led away from the river and followed up around onto the escarpment, with no shade.
We met some people who had been to the last swimming hole, where the trail leaves the river, they had turned back, they said it had got harder, we decided to push on as we didn't really want to go back over what we had just crossed.
After the trail left the river it wasn't the best for a while, but then it went onto an old 4wd track, this was stoney but very much easier to walk on.
The views were good and birds everywhere, we never noticed not having any shade.
When we got back to the car park there wasn't any one else about, so we walked back up the trail to the first swimming hole and went skinny dipping to cool off.
As we was driving back to camp we saw another one, Jackeroos Waterhole, only a short walk, but our muscles were feeling pretty tired so we decided to give it a miss.