The Amphitheatre Gorge walk was challenging at first, a scramble over large rocks and through spinifex, trying to find the cairns to follow along the way.  Above the gorge is a series of rock pools and a larger billabong lined with pandanus and shrubs.  A square-tailed kite circled the billabong over our heads. The views back over the river were amazing, our boats looked so small.  By now we were 4 cats:  Nomad Davina, Duet, Exhale and Heatwave.  Then a power boat, Sally Jane, cruised in to join us.

Upstream you can travel by dinghy as far as Rock Bar then walk over a rocky terrace along the riverbank.  The Berkley River goes for miles, with series of cascades fringed with paperbarks and pandanus.  There are crocs in most parts of the river so you need to find a small waterhole before swimming.  Variegated fairy-wrens hop around in the shrubs and white-bellied cuckoo-shrikes fly around the escarpments. 

Just before Rock Bar is a beautiful waterfall where we tied up and scrambled over the rocks to another series of pools with waterlilies and plenty of fish.    24/6/21