The national park itinerary suggested driving up to Surveyors pool and then to a lookout over the coast line for the second day, so we set off and eventually found the pool. I don’t think too many people follow their itinerary. We passed only one vehicle and there was no one at the car park. The walk to the pool was 1.5 km return, a stroll after yesterday. It was a beautiful spot. The information sign asked you to respect the aboriginal snake that resided in the pools below the falls and not to swim in these pools, the second line on the sign suggested that there were estuarine crocodiles in the pools.

Respect Guaranteed

I think the respect was guaranteed. There were two waterfalls into a large pool, one stepped and the other one was a direct drop into the pool.

Waterfall into Surveyor’s Pool

Surveyors Pool

We found a small pool above the falls that was deep enough to get wet. There was a little scum on the rock bottom but once that cleared, sitting in the cool, rushing water on a hot day in May was brilliant.

From Surveyors pool the itinerary suggested a lookout further up the road where you could look out over the coast line. Unfortunately the lookout was not marked and the track continued on to the coast. As the track came down from the escarpment it became rougher and rougher. It was time to engage low range, nearly an hour later of crawling over this steep rocky track we came out near the coast with a fairly large bog hole in front of us. There was evidence that vehicles had been through it recently but being on our own and facing an hour crawl back up this track we decided it was time to turn around and head back to camp.