After crossing the bar and entering the King George River (KGR), we spent a few days motoring up to the river gorge to the falls that mark the end of the navigable section of the river. The cliffs along gorge of the KGR is much taller than the Berkeley and the rocks appear to be more eroded and crumbled into boulders with big slabs falling from under, leaving large overhanging lips.
The pair of falls at the end of the gorge are the tallest waterfall in Western Australia. Although there was extensive rain earlier this year, we haven’t seen any rain now since May, and the river now runs over the falls at barely a trickle.
Just downstream of the falls there is sloping scree of boulders reaching from the river to the flat plateau at the top which allowed us to scramble up to inspect the river above the falls, and to enjoy the view from the top.
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From the top of the right hand falls, we walked over to the left hand falls, and then inland to find a cooling water hole fora swim.
We saw a few other people over the three days we remained up at the falls, with occasional tourist boats coming in for a quick photo.
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