Decided to go back and have a look at the creek again today - see if I could find the rock art. Fortunately, old mate croc wasn’t lurking around waiting for me but unfortunately, I was beaten there by a cruise ship and its 20 or so passengers. Dang.

Standard procedure when leaving the dinghy in these waters, is to take the anchor ashore, as well as a line - but also our emergency kit, which contains various useful bits such as a radio, tools, bug spray etc. You can see it perched up above where the dinghy is. This photo was taken looking back along the creek - with the tide almost at its heighest point today.

The freshwater pool was a short walk along the rocks (the ledge opened up - it was quite easy). Its quite a deep pool, and to be honest, I probably wouldn’t have swum in it if a bunch of cruise tourists hadn’t done so first. As croc testers, they’re great! Though the pool is freshwater fed from a spring, and quite some distance above the high tide line, its unlikely a saltie would get there, but its possible and being deep and dark, we’re unable to check. Rule 1 for swimming around here is always to find someone else to swim for 30mins. Rule 2 is if you can’t find someone, then check water, edges, overhangs etc, then go to Rule 1.

As it happened, the rock art was easiest to reach with a brief swim - so over I went.

Under the ledge was a couple of comet or jellyfish-type objects (lets go with comets as its somewhat appropriate given the 2 active showers in the night sky at the moment).

There were some other less well defined drawings, but I’ll save the bandwidth for now. It was worth the trip. Now we want to make progress towards the Prince Regent River, as we’d like to meet up with a cruise ship there at the spring tides. Ironically, the same cruise ship who’s passengers beat me to the creek today - but Nina’s friend isn’t working onboard until next week.