As we had not seen Gunlom Infinity Pools we planned to leave Cooinda today and trek in to Gunlom on our way to our next destination at Mataranka.

We left the Kakadu Highway and turned off to Gunlom – 37 kms of dirt road to get in…the road was not too bad but it had a couple of small river crossings and was fairly corrugated most of the way. We met a couple in at Gunlom who had left their van at the info centre just south of the turnoff to make the journey in…if we had know we may have done that as the trip in would have been quicker…and less of the punish for the van 😆

Gunlom is a campground that caravans can go to so it was ok bringing the van in – we parked in the day use area, got changed into our cossies and started the 1 km vertical trek up to the top of the Gunlom Falls where the Infinity Pools are. The track was rocky and steep up the side of the cliff but once at the top the view was breathtaking down to the large pool at the base of the waterfall and across Kakadu….. the infinity pools at the top were amazing….better than any pools we have seen so far and it made the long journey in and strenuous climb seem definately worth it…we were so glad we had made the effort!

 

We swam and soaked for ages….and finally tore ourselves away as we had a long drive to Mataranka. We walked down to the bottom and checked out the large plunge pool at the base of the falls which was also beautiful.

After a quick lunch we headed back out along the dusty dirt road and rejoined the highway…..we made Mataranka just before the sun went down and set up at Bitter Springs Campground.