Edith Falls

After collecting our mail from Katherine post office and doing a spot of shopping, we drove onto Edith Falls and set up camp on a beautiful green grassy lawn. The camper trailers and motorhomes were restricted to the gravel car park area.  But as we had a tent we were able to park our car close by and set our tent up on the grass. Very lovely.
It was so hot that we went for a swim in our clothes at about 5.50pm after we had finished setting up camp.

The following day we walked to the top of the falls and explored the rocks.  We had a swim.  Then after lunch we had another swim in the bottom pool.
That night the kids all got together with shovels and the like for a cane toad muster.  Many of the kids were from Darwin, so were used to this sort of thing.  They roamed the camping area looking for loitering cane toads and bopped them on the head.  Our kids found the sanctioned gratuitous violence against a living creature quite fun, though they were somewhat more conservative in their approach compared to the other kids.

Evan's diary entry is as follows:

Edith Falls

First at Edith Falls we looked at the lower swimming hole, but it was just so beautiful we couldn't stop ourselves, so we went in with our clothes on.
Edith Falls was a good place to swim.