We left Katherine at 7:30am and headed to Florence Falls. The weather had become a little overcast and a bit cooler so I wasn’t sure about the swimming. Mark bought the 2nd worst coffee of the trip at the Adelaide River Roadhouse – little coffee and lots of milk.

Just out from the falls, we walked down to Buley Rockhole. The other three embraced the water and enjoyed slowly meandering down to a number of the rock pools. I became the chief photographer.

We then drove up to Florence Falls and walked the 135 steps down to the base of the twin waterfalls.

This time, I did get in. I was told as I prepared to enter the water that a little tree snake had just swum out from under the steps. We were only there once so I ignored that and joined the others in the water… slowly. Remember, I’m a slider not a plunger.

It was amazing. The force of the falls was incredible and the current made it nearly impossible to approach the one in the photographs.

We had lunch at Bachelor and then finished the drive to Darwin.

Tonight was the night – finally getting the seafood we have tried to get so often. We walked to the wharf and had dinner at The Oyster Bar. We had wanted to try Snapper Rocks but it was closed again.