ribuck wrote:Thanks Kevin, I'm looking forward to your report as I'll be out that way in May. On a May trip some years ago, I found plenty of water above Giles Springs, but it was high up and took a bit of time and energy to find it.
Hi ribuck. I climbed above the waterfall in the second creek (which I'm guessing is Giles Spring?) as there was water seeping down the rock face, but it was pretty dry above the waterfall - I didn't push up further though.
The third creek had water a lot further up but it was pretty festy, there was good water trickling down through crevices in the rock but you'd probably need a small cup, or a bit of tubing to access it.
The waterhole on Ormiston Creek (about where you leave the creek and head towards the base of Mt Giles) had a couple of inches of green slime in it, I could see where the roos had been digging in the sandy creek bed to get water but we weren't that desperate.
It looks like the NT Parks people have re-routed the pound walk since I was last out there. I'm sure it use to drop straight into the pound from the lookout? It now heads another half a kilometre or so east before dropping into the pound (this is good as it gets you another half a kilometre closer to Mt Giles before you have to start to push through the spinifex
Speaking of spinifex, the first 1 or 2 kilometres across the pound are the worst, after that it thins out a bit and the walking was pretty good (we contoured about half way between Ormiston Creek and the south walls of the pound).
I'll do a decent trip report on my blog in the next month and post a link when I get it up.
Cheers Kevin
- My mate James, resting in the shade in the second creek.
- The waterhole/spring in the third creek was a little to festy for me - it was also further up the creek.
- It was a fairly hot walk, and then there was the flies!
- I'm thinking this is Giles Spring ? It's at the first big waterfall as I climbed the second major creek draining the southern side of the mountain.