{"id":482,"date":"2008-05-17T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2008\/05\/17\/14-may-%e2%80%93-katherine-gorge-and-edith-falls\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:57","slug":"14-may-katherine-gorge-and-edith-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"14 May \u2013 Katherine Gorge and Edith Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got up early and headed for Katherine Gorge. We hired some canoes and canoed down the gorge. I was a bit paranoid about crocodiles but luckily we didn\u2019t see any. They have traps all the way along the gorge for salt-water crocs, so they obviously expect them here.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the gorge we braved the croc infested waters and went for a swim. It was gorgeous (excuse the pun).  We had the swimming hole to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/p5140068.jpg' title='p5140068.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/05\/p5140068.thumbnail.JPG' alt='p5140068.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/p51400571.jpg' title='p5140057.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/05\/p5140057.thumbnail.JPG' alt='p5140057.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We splashed and frolicked for a bit then paddled back, stopping at a beach for a rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/p51400551.jpg' title='p5140055.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/05\/p5140055.thumbnail.JPG' alt='p5140055.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a bit of lunch then headed for Edith Falls at the other end of the national park. It is supposedly safe for swimming but the signs warned that salt-water crocs could come in undetected. It was hot so we took a chance and went for a swim, wondering why we were the only ones doing so.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/img_26051.jpg' title='img_2605.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2008\/05\/img_2605.thumbnail.JPG' alt='img_2605.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We cooked up a chicken curry for dinner and drank beer. No sunset photos tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got up early and headed for Katherine Gorge. We hired some canoes and canoed down the gorge. I was a bit paranoid about crocodiles but luckily we didn\u2019t see any. They have traps all the way along the gorge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=482\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-7M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}