Tarzan Falls Waterhole Adventure

Sunday, February 3, 2013, looked great and everyone was geared up for a hike to Tarzan Falls Waterhole for a splash and a swim.

The trail head is at the highest point of the cross island road. Jeep trails snake around in all directions from this point. Choose your favorite, and try not to get lost.

The red dirt is very red, pretty, but it stains.

At some point the "trail" branches, the one to the left goes to the falls. We took the one to the right, headed towards the waterhole.

We broke out of the jungle and started walking down the river.

Interesting pot holes, many with the rock that rounded them still there.

The pool was very jungle like with pandanas plants and vines nearby.

Everyone quickly got in for a swim, and then started checking things out.

The rope swing was a big hit. Nathan takes a try at it.

Caleb gives it a go. Tarzan.

Splash!

William thought it was great!

In he goes.

Sploosh!

Once that started getting old, they went tried jumping off the sloping rock wall on the other side. William begged to dive, but Mom said "No way. The head goes in last, not first." They still had fun. There wasn't any rock below where they were leaping.

Robin was such a good sport. She went jumping too.

One. Two. Three. In they go, lightest one lands last.

Of course it wasn't long until the teens were all "starving". They quickly cleaned it all up, so there wasn't much to carry out in the knapsacks.

After lunch activity moved over to the local whirlpool hot tub.

And then Araya got in too.

The good thing is that the rock wall provided a bit of shade there too.

They figured out that Rob was large enough to plug the outlet hole.

Which raised the water level in the pool.

And then when Rob could hold it back no more, everyone would go squirting out of the whirlpool hot tub, and have a good ride.

And then they would put Rob back into the hole and do it again.

The next fun was when they tried to block the inlet to the pool, and then let it pour over someone.

They figured out how to get the water lever so high, that water would overflow the top. The quick guys got a water slide ride over the rock.

It took two people to fill the hole when this happened.

Away they go.

Many thanks to Roger and Amy Krum to leading the way to all this jungle water park fun.

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