Karijini National Park

Standing by a huge ancient rock

Circular pool

Woke up early to see that the Dales Gorge is now open, so that was our first stop in the Karijini National Park.

Chris and I

Falls

It was really beautiful and took a long walk down to Fortescue Falls and went for a refreshing cool off in the water below.

Chris having a wash in Fortescue Falls

Chris after his swim

Then after we dried off took a 3km rough hike to see the Circular Pool and again went for a swim and then a steep walk back to the top to find our van.

Hiding behind a rock

Where we went

It was a fantastic morning and as we arrived to both places quite early on, it felt as if we almost had the place to ourselves.

Chris standing in the middle of the gorge

On the walk from falls to pool

Then, starving we went and hungrily made ourselves bacon sandwiches and made our way to the visitor centre in the park.

Pigeons with Mohicans

Karijini National Park

Everyone advised that as we were here we should go and see some of the other lookout points North of the park making Weano Gorge the priority, so we got in the van and set off.

Strange but pretty tree

After 14km down a horribly corrugated dirt track taking us 35 minutes we gave up and turned back around scared we would permanently damage the van. It was 43km in total so would’ve taken us 2 hours to get there and as it was already the afternoon we wouldn’t make it back before dark. Gutted. We really were disappointed. So instead we headed out of the park and to a little campsite, which we had completely to ourselves, apart from the horrible disgusting persistent flies which drove us crazy!