Hunter River and Porosus Creek

 We arrived in the Hunter River and anchored in an Porosus Creek which is a side tributary to the river.  When we arrived there were three cruise boats already here.  Le Soleil is a 466 foot and 234 guest luxury cruise ship and she was anchored in the main river.  The other two cruise ships were anchored in the creek near us and were 175 foot 36 passenger ships named Discovery Expeditions and a second True North!  Needless to say there were tenders from the cruise ships going up and down the creek all day.  Each ship has a helicopter aboard so they were often overhead as well. Yesterday Glen and I took the dinghy for a short trip up the creek.  It is very scenic but it was low tide so there were large mud banks and we could not travel very far due to the low water.

The real Canadian True North anchored in Porosus Creek

This morning we all took the dinghy about 10 miles up the Hunter River to its headwaters.  At several places the river runs through deep gorges  and in other areas it is lined with mangroves.  There are two waterfalls at the head of the river but we had been told that it is a long difficult walk to the waterfalls and at least one of them was currently dry.  The tide had started to drop so we decided to skip the waterfalls so we would not have a repeat of the grounded dinghy when we returned.

Exploring the Hunter River gorges

When we arrived back at the real True North šŸ˜Š we found we had a visitor by the boatā€¦
A young 2 metre crocodile hanging around the boat


Did I mention that Porosus is Latin for crocodile?

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