Mitchell River

Day 4 - Lower Mitchell Falls - Mertens Creek

The party after the main scramble up the falls

Clare at the upper cascade

Easy walking along rocky slabs alongside the river

Wandjina art

Another figure in what was quite an impressive gallery

Crossing the floodplain from the branch we had been following back to the main river

Rock slabs along the river

Some well preserved Bradshaw figures

Tiny scorpion

Paul and Edith scrambling to get to the plateau near Mitchell Falls

Edith and Paul near the top, with the river in the background

Camp near Mertens Creek

Day 5 - Mertens Creek - unnamed creek

Cal admiring Mertens Falls

Mertens Falls

Mertens Falls and Creek

Mertens Falls

Mertens Falls

Mitchell Falls

Mitchell Falls

Kenn photographing Mitchell Falls

The upper three cascades of Mitchell Falls

Derrick above Mitchell Falls

Gina above the lower cascade...

...being photographed by Derrick

View down the river from the falls

Marianne, Geoff, Gina and Derrick

Tom

Wild flower

The next art site was one of the most impressive from the trip - a fish

Flower

Amazing array of Bradshaw paintings

Green lizard

Grinding hole

Sharpening grooves

Large rapids on Mitchell River

Rocky slabs above the river

Derrick on a cross country stretch

Edith scrambling up a small bluff

Geoff on a pack float near Camp Creek

Gina and Suzi pack floating

Scrambling up the bluffs opposite the swim

Geoff on the bluffs

Paul pointing for the camera! Camp on a side creek