Karijini N.P.

KARIJINI N.P 15^th – 16^th May

Karijini the place of gorgeous gorges!

 We stayed at Dales Campground which is well spread out with large campsites and yes Thack (our dear friend) they still have rocks in the ground for Pete to bend the pegs on! HA Only 4 pegs went in at this sight!



Our camp site, that is hard gravel to put your pegs into!



Here all you do is walk gorge after gorge and admire the scenery, yes you can become a bit gorged out but they are all so beautiful.

On our first night we had a very lean dingo walk past checking it all out, not at all bothered about us. There are signs up everywhere regarding the dingoes and they tell you not to leave anything out at night, even shoes!!

The gorges and walks we did were; Circular Pool, Fortescue Falls, Fern Pool, Handrail Pool, and Kermit’s Pool down Hancock's Gorge.

Rocks, Spinifex, trees and water are the staples of this land and what a pretty amazing picture they make up.

Here is a selection of those gorges; enjoy.

CIRCULAR POOL

 A short steep climb down to the floor of the gorge then an easy walk along the rocks to the pool.

The boys are up on the left looking
down at Circular Pool




The layered rock up the gorge to Circular Pool




Like huge steps.



At the pool and trying to get the boys to go for a swim,
it is very cold.



 

Pete in, boys trying.

Lovely clear water!





Sue in and boys finally get in!

 



As we were climbing out of the gorge the sun was setting!
Pretty.

THREE WAYS LOOKOUT                                       OXER LOOKOUT





HANDRAIL POOL

When you first get down to the bottom
of the gorge to the left  is this
little pool, Pete likes the reflection
of the water on the rock! The main walk
is to the right.



The first obstacle, water still in the
gorges so time to get wet. We put on our
bathers and rock climbed our way through.




Just got through the first one and we had
to do it again! Fun.




The walls are closing in!




You can not see but this little pool is very round,
we proceeded on through the gap in front.





We found the hand rail!




Was quite steep but fun.





Getting ready for a swim, very cold!

 


We all got in, this is Charlie swimming across.





This is looking back at where you enter the pool with the handrail , you can just make out the boys
on the rail.

 

HANCOCK GORGE

The boys liked it when they had
something to climb.



We choose not to take the camera any further because we
didn't know how deep this was going to get so we
all put on bathers and left our gear in a pile and went
for a swim down the gorge. The gorge on further was fun with lots of climbing like a spider between the walls. We ended up at a little green pool called Kermit's Pool. We probably could have got
the camera down with Pete holding it above his head, but we
didn't want to risk it. 





 


This goanna walked right in between us while we sat and had
a break at the spot we left our gear. He was about 50cm long.



A full view, he has a very long tail.

FERN POOL



What a great display of the amazing trees they have with huge root systems. 





Fern Pool, gorgeous!

 

Charlie and I sitting under the falls. We all swam out to the water fall which was a good
effort for the boys.





After we got out the pool became very busy, isn't it  a lovely colour?

                                     FORTESCUE FALLS



These are lovely in there own little amphitheatre. You can just make out Pete and Tom
sitting down near the water on the right. It doesn't show it very clearly but
the rock is all stepped and layered.




A closer view of the falls. ( Don't know the people in the photo.)





This was our second visit to Karijini and I don't think it will be our last, it is such an amazing place with so much character. There was still alot of water around because of the great wets they had last year and having the pools to swim in made the heat of the day alot easier to bare. The only problem is after you have had a lovely refreshing swim you then have to walk back up out of the gorge! Oh well, can't have it too easy!