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![]() ![]() In fact the gorge is a chain of gorges one may travel for a couple of days. But as we busy bus travellers didn't have time to stay there any longer than a couple of hours and only visited the first two gorges. In the first one there are a couple of sandy spots which provide nesting places for the freshwater crocodiles, the so-called "freshies". But neither here nor anywhere else we managed to see a single one. ![]() After a while we reached the end of the first gorge, where the water was too shallow for the boats. We had to walk some 500 m and enter the next boat in the second gorge. The second gorge was the more impressive one with steep walls and not much place for the crocs anymore. ![]() The gorge was then much longer than it looks here. We saw the markings of the high water which would lift the level some 6 metres. Just above that there were the nests of the bottle swallows again. For the gorge, a nice place to stay is the Mercure Inn. |