They are all big days in this part of the world. Today’s visits were to Emma Gorge and Zebedee Springs on the El Questro Station. The Gibb River Rd was busy being made into a highway (or so it looked like) and we made out way very slowly along all the detour roads.
Zebedee Springs, is a series of warm rock pools just down the main driveway. A short walk and we were floating in our own private rock pool of clear warm water in the shade of ancient Livingstonia Palms. Ahh, it’s a tough life, but someone has to do it.
Emma Gorge Resort is a little piece of heaven on the eastern most edge of El Questro Station. This is for 2 reasons. We walked for an hour up a rocky sunlit riverbed to a rockpool that is Emma Gorge. Actually, we made it initially to the turquoise pool and the kids were about to jump in until we realised that there were more blue markers to follow and people further up the trail. The extra slog over the last 100 metres was certainly worth it as we arrived at a magical waterfall and a huge pool that we had almost to ourselves. Emma Gorge is as cold as Zebedee is warm but we seriously needed the cool down and cool down we did, swimming under the rock ledges and waterfall. This is the place that has officially become my “bees knees” of places to visit and swim.
On our return we were lucky enough to be the only guests at the resort and had the restaurant to ourselves and we enjoyed a very fresh and well prepared lunch (not bad value either for such a remote place). They even let us swim in the pool after our walk!
There are many wonderful places in the Kimberley that we have seen and visited and also many that we simply haven’t had time for. Rest assured we will be back at some stage!
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