Karijini

This blog will be just for Karijini. 

After setting up camp at Dale's camp ground with Nev and Rob we went for the Karijini NP walk and it was beautiful, we found it easy enough and just took our time walking. (see attached walk diagram)

Sue and I selected the Class 4 walk which encompassed steep climbs and twisting rock descents down into gorges and swim holes. The most spectacular was the Fern Pool with crystal emerald water and cold. We took our time and rested at the beautiful water holes.

The total walk was 9.2 kms.

Some of the pictures below are from the other gorges. 

We all miss Billy so much.

25th July Tuesday

This morning after a yummy breakfast of bacon and eggs, croissants and coffee we clean up, put the boots back on again and we all jump in the 100 series Landcruiser.

The plan today is to walk or see what is left of the gorges here from the Weano Recreation area.

Encompassing the lookouts that we viewed were Joffre lookout, Junction Pool lookout, Oxer lookout, Upper Weano gorge, Lower Weano gorge.

We also drove around to the Eco Lodge where we shouted N&R  a coffee and muffin , before driving onto more wonderful corrugations for about 43 kms.

The walk Sue and I did was classified as a Class 5 down to Hancock Gorge. Neville and Robyn decided to choose a shorter walk and met us a few hours later back in the carpark.

Estimated 1.5km-2hr return.

This trail is for very experienced bushwalkers., but we just took our time and everything was good. The trail led towards the edge of the gorge where there are numerous natural obstacles. Negotiating uneven rock steps to reach the ladder, we descend to the gorge floor and walk downstream towards Kermits Pool and rested in the Amphitheatre. Just further upstream where we didn’t go was the Spider walk, which was a tight squeeze using hands and feet on the walls. We spoke to other walkers before heading back towards the ladder and the steep climb of rock steps to the top.  The sun was quite hot as we were walking back on the track and couldn’t wait for the shade.

Whilst waiting for N&R we chatted to some lovely French girls who have been exploring Australia for the last 4.5 months.

We had lunch with N&R before driving back to camp and relaxing.

We decided to pick up Billy tomorrow morning as we can’t leave him in the cage any longer.

26th July Wednesday

6 degrees

By 6.30am we were on the road and heading towards Tom Price for Billy at 8am.

As we exited Dales Campground they had a sign out advising the campground was full, which explained why we saw some tents set up in the visitor’s centre yesterday.

We arrived at the kennels 8.15am and saw Billy in the exercise yard which was great to see, he saw us then ran to the gate to greet us. It was locked and we had to wait for the assistant to unlock it before we could really cuddle him. Billy could not wait to get into the back of the car and had a huge drink of water.

From here we went and had a coffee and light lunch before food shopping, fuel, clothes washing in laundromat then back to the camp site at Tiger Eye Pool where we were on 23rd July. Just as we were leaving N&R drove into the carpark and greeted Billy with enthusiasm which he loved.

Camp oven scones for late afternoon tea.