Elliot Falls

In the middle of the top of Cape York, a place generally pretty hostile and rugged, is a fresh water paradise. The mighty Jardine River is fed by fresh water that oozes and sometimes rushes out of the sandstone from the fill of the big wet. Elliot Creek is major tributary, and the Elliot, Twin Falls and Fruit Bat Falls are features on this river. Camping there is like being on another planet, as the air is dry, and the ground is dry, and yet beneath your feet mega liters of fresh, clean water. We bathed and swam and drank without restriction here, massaged by the pummelling water of the falls, snorkeling to see the hidden submerged world of fallen trees and rocks, saw birds and pitcher plants lined the water ways. Carsten managed to lose one of his earrings in about 6 meters of water, and then Vance managed to pull off the first of his miracles by recovering it from the cool depths. I discovered that riding the rapids is not as soft as I might have hoped, and jumped off a cliff into the current below. Such fun! A truly magical place. SJC