Saturday, 29 October 2011

Karijini National Park

Oxer Lookout





Desert Rose

Fern Pool

What a great night for sleeping - it was the first night in a long time it got cool enough to pull the doona out. We dropped past the visitors centre to ring Tom Price mine to put our name down for the tour on Monday morning and then continued on along the dirt road to Weano Gorge - a further 44km. We walked across to the Oxer and Junction Pool Lookouts for the extraordianry views of the junction of the Red, Weano, Joffre and Hancock Gorges. We then took the trail down into Weano Gorge to the Handrail Pool which involved some rock scrambling, swimming and rock climbing - it was great fun and the kids got right into it. When we got back to the car park we had some lunch in the picnic area. Heading back towards the campground the next stop was a couple of short walks to Joffre and Knox lookouts. After all this walking we treated ourselves to half price 'Cornettos' from the visitors centre. We decided on another quick swim at Fern Pool which is a little further on past Fortescue Falls. We caught up with Tori and Michael there who we had met in Broome.

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