Cobbold Gorge

The Savannah Way is taking us back east with two overnight stops at Gilbert River and Cumberland Mine before arriving back in Georgetown for three nights. A booking was made for a day trip to Cobbold Gorge about 90 Km’s from Georgetown. Our original intention was to take the van out to the gorge and camp there but we were advised against it because of the severely rough unsealed road. We must say that this time the advice was well founded although the really bad section was only about 13 Km’s long between Georgetown and Forsayth, the rest was either sealed or fairly good gravel (gravel about 50 Km each way)

A View From On Top

A Side Gorge

Your visit to Cobbold Gorge is comprised of a small group three hour conducted tour. Starting off in a 4WD bus we are taken on a network of rough and narrow station tracks with a crossing of the wide sandy Robertson River before reaching the parking area near the gorge. Then an interesting guided walk up onto the escarpment with plenty of stops to learn about the native vegetation and it’s uses by aboriginal people. We also inspected the lonely grave of an early settler and businessman named Corbett. Then on to the top of the ridge to look down into the deep narrow gorge, before returning to the creek to board a small electric powered boat for a cruise on the narrow waterway. The boats are specially designed to fit up the gorge and in the narrowest sections there is only about an inch of clearance on each side. Thanks to ‘Scruffy’ our skilful and informative guide we only gently touched the rock wall on a couple of occasions.

Cobbold Creek

The gorge is so narrow because it is quit young - about 10 Million Years Old

Cruising the Gorge

Upon returning to the Cobbold Gorge ‘village’ we had a delicious lunch in the café followed by a cool refreshing swim in the magnificent infinity pool – wow how we wished we could have a pool like this in our backyard – it even has a swim-up bar serving cocktails in the evenings. Refreshed and invigorated we were ready to tackle the rough and dusty drive back to Georgetown.

Our next pool - we wish