WW2 Air Wreckage at Fenton Airfield
The Arches Waterhole
Butterfly Gorge
Day 131
Alan and I decided to drive to Butterfly Gorge about 17km away as we heard it was a lovely walk and swimming gorge. The others are heading to Daly River and we will meet up later. The drive to the gorge was lovely and the walk not too strenuous. We had been told to swim through the first pool and climb up a series of rocky pools and falls to reach the most gorgeous pool at the top. The effort was so worth it but unfortunately we didn’t have a waterproof camera so no pics of this beautiful peaceful place with no one else around. We reluctantly headed back to the car and then back to pick up our trailer and on to Daly River to meet with the others. There is only limited mobile service so we had to hope that they had left some sort of message to let us know where they had decided to camp. On the way we stopped in at The Arches Waterhole for a swim and then to Fenton Airfield, a WW2 heavy bomber airfield which had suffered 2 heavy attacks by Japanese Aircraft and remnants of wreckage and the old bitumen runway still there to look around. We found a large piece of fuselage in the bush but there are probably lots of smaller pieces scattered around the overgrown bush. We drove to the Wooliana campground where the others were and which was beautiful and grassy and clean and right on the banks of the Daly. There are a lot of fishermen staying here and many have their own tinnies tied up to the little jetty heading out for up to 12 hours at a time trying to catch the elusive Barramundi. Apparently there were lots to be caught in April and May but they haven’t been catching as many lately. Bait is a a cherub which is a large freshwater prawn caught in a crab pot and the numbers of these being caught lately have dropped off too so not much chance of us getting to see or taste any barra here . We enjoy sunset drinks on the jetty doing some croc spotting and watching the evening activities on this magnificent river.
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