SteveNT
Very Well-Known Member
So, I have been looking at this creek on maps for 25 years but have never been able to reach it. It is on a large escarpment with the nearest track 10km away. We have bashed up onto the escarpment before but could not penetrate the stone country that surrounds it.
Thanks to updated imagery on Google Earth, and GPS waypoints my mate found a way in two weeks ago. Last week I sent him back with the old waterproof Olympus click and shoot and these are the results. So far only 2 of the 20km of creek explored. Lots of very old art sites and no sign of anyone having been there for a century or more. (Possibly no white fellas ever).
He reports plenty of large monitors, king browns, western browns and olives. Only one cane toad. Prolific bird life and the pools are full of fat Sooty Grunters that climb over eachother to grab a lure.
He reckons there are small to massive snake skins all over the place (not sure what they are though.)
I'm looking at taking the rest of this week off to properly explore the whole system and document it with the D90.
A lot of our "secret spots" have been discovered by clowns who post the locations and directions online and they are now full of beer bottles, nappies and idiots with no respect for what they are looking at. My mate reckons this is the clearest water he has ever seen.
This area is a wildlife refuge with these permanent springs. To the east is granite country and to the west limestone and neither have accessible water in the Dry season. The creek is on a pastoral lease but there are no cattle (or other ferals) up on the escarpment. Fires are also very rare in this environment.
I'm looking forward to exploring this system (and 5 feeder creeks) and will post pics when I return.
We are lucky to still have untouched places like this in the Top End and my mate has raked over his tracks and dropped logs on the access points. Hopefully we can keep the spot secret for a decade or two!
I cant wait to get into old No Name Creek. Looks like the 25 year wait will be worth it!
Thanks to updated imagery on Google Earth, and GPS waypoints my mate found a way in two weeks ago. Last week I sent him back with the old waterproof Olympus click and shoot and these are the results. So far only 2 of the 20km of creek explored. Lots of very old art sites and no sign of anyone having been there for a century or more. (Possibly no white fellas ever).
He reports plenty of large monitors, king browns, western browns and olives. Only one cane toad. Prolific bird life and the pools are full of fat Sooty Grunters that climb over eachother to grab a lure.
He reckons there are small to massive snake skins all over the place (not sure what they are though.)
I'm looking at taking the rest of this week off to properly explore the whole system and document it with the D90.
A lot of our "secret spots" have been discovered by clowns who post the locations and directions online and they are now full of beer bottles, nappies and idiots with no respect for what they are looking at. My mate reckons this is the clearest water he has ever seen.
This area is a wildlife refuge with these permanent springs. To the east is granite country and to the west limestone and neither have accessible water in the Dry season. The creek is on a pastoral lease but there are no cattle (or other ferals) up on the escarpment. Fires are also very rare in this environment.
I'm looking forward to exploring this system (and 5 feeder creeks) and will post pics when I return.
We are lucky to still have untouched places like this in the Top End and my mate has raked over his tracks and dropped logs on the access points. Hopefully we can keep the spot secret for a decade or two!
I cant wait to get into old No Name Creek. Looks like the 25 year wait will be worth it!
