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A flight of 3 brolgas flew over our camp this morning… pretty majestic.

We left our faithful trailer behind at King Edward River as the road up to Mitchell Plateau is pretty rough… we got to the camp at Mitchell Falls around midday, cracked a beer and chilled for a while.

Mitchell Plateau and Mitchell Falls are amazing - we spent two nights up here, checking out the falls, and swimming in some magic pools and waterfalls; there’s also a tonne of Aboriginal art up here, representing a massive time span -  in some cases, a single small section of wall might have art ranging from 17,000 years ago right up to relatively recent times. That’s a mind-boggling span of time for a culture to exist continuously - think about how many other cultures or civilisations have risen and vanished within a fraction of that time.

As it happens, Jane and I didn’t take the camera on our walk out to Mitchell Falls (Matty took his), so no photos here of the falls themselves.

By the way, here’s the creek crossing I mentioned last time, on our way out back towards Kalumburu Road: