21...Karijinni Gorge NP

On the way to Karijinni NP we saw new roadkill.
Apart from the usual Kangaroos there were Cows. Sometimes only the bones and sometimes mummified. But no camels...

Our first stop was the Hamersley Gorge. We drove over nearly 80 km of Dirt Road.
The Gorge is great. Different colours and a little lake where I jumped in, of course. I swam a few metres to the gorge and through the gorge. Left and right hand only 4 metres space and the walls 30m high. Strange feeling inside.
We continued to the Weano Gorge over the next dirt road and did the Handrailpool walk. First 113 (Thx Tim for counting) rocky steps down do the Gorge, accompanied by sounds from a didgeridoo what a group of Aborigines on the top played. Sometimes the walk in the Gorge was flooded and we had to clinge to the wall and walk like Spiderman. When we reached the Handrailpool, we had to climb 3 metres down a rope and there is this lake, surrounded by 25 metres high rock walls.
We did the Hancock Gorge the next day. Again rocky steps, down a 6 metres long ladder, clinged to the wall again and then the Spiderwalk. The passage is approx 1.50 metres wide, under me is water and I have to go through, anyhow. Like a spider. Left Arm + foot on the left side and right Arm + foot on the right side and keep walking. Further on, to the Kermit Pool and shortly behind goes the water over some steps into a lake and it's continues to the side. Unfortunately, we couldn't go further because there was too much polished rocks.
After that, we tried to see Joffre Falls. But someone must have pulled out the plug, because all the water was gone. So we went on to the Fortescue Falls and to the Fern Pool, where we jumped into the water.
The next day we walked over the Gorge Rim, Fortescue Falls, through to Dales Gorge to the Circular Pool. We jumped into the water and from the waterfalls again, of course.
(The Karijinni NP is in my Top 5)


We moved on via Port Hedland to Broome. Except for the Camelcaravan traveling was very boring.
We took a brake at Eighty Mile Beach for swimming. Water was nearly 1 km away. So we walked. When we reached the water we kept walking in the water. We decided after 500m to stop going, because we were only up to our knees in water.

We are now in Broome. Finding Accomodation wasn't so easy. Everything was booked out or they kicked us out because we were cheating (we said, we are 5 people instead of 9...). So we have ended on a Campers Overflow. A soccerfield from the police youth club...