Day 13 - Redbank Gorge to Henbury Meteorite Conservation Reserve - NT

Day 13 - Today we got up early to brave the cold waters of the Redbank Gorge. Though the signs suggested using wet suits we thought as good old Canadians that we’d be okay. So we pumped up the some air mattresses, walked about 20 mins to the gorge and after probably five minutes of thinking about it just into the icy water. It was a cool adventure though. You paddle yourself in the water until you hit a spot that you had to climb then jump back in the water. We went as far as we could until risk of getting stuck and hurt on a huge drop was to great.

We packed up and then headed off to what is considered the capital of the outback, Alice Springs. We walked around, looked for aboriginal artefacts and stopped at possibly the world’s coolest pub, Bojangles Saloon. The pub had artefacts from around the world. Natalie and Mick had Bojangles Port complete with a free port cup, while Greg tried Bundaberg rum and coke on draught. That’s right Rum and Coke premixed on draught. After wetting our tongues we decided to find ourselves a camp for the night so we headed to Henbury Meteorite Conservation Reserve.

Entrance into the Redbank Gorge

Mick frozen right down to his undies.

Paddling our way through the Gorge

You’ll notice in this photo that Greg’s arm is so numb that the photo is actually blurred.

Weeeeeeee!

We didn't see anyone else attempting to swim through the gorge that day. Most people took the path above it and look down on it.

Good times!

Bojangles Pub in Alice Springs.

This one is for John and J.J. A spear complete with scope. For the high tech aboriginal.

Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve contains 12 craters which were formed when a meteor hit the earth’s surface 4700 years ago. The Henbury Meteor, weighing several tonnes and accelerating to over 40,000km/h, disintegrated before impact, and the fragments formed the craters

You can only get to three of the 12 craters. Here is a photo of the first of three.

Two of three.

Three of three. Not much to see but a cool piece of history.

Here is our camp site at the reserve.