Karijini National Park is awesome. We had a fantastic couple of days there in the eco tents(road too rough to get our van in -shame!)
We explored Dales Gorge on the first day which was a beautiful walk, we also found one of the best natural swimming pools we've seen -Fern pool.
The next day we had a great time doing some more adventurous wallks. Hancock gorge involved descending a couple of ladders then wading through knee deep water, scaling sides of rock walls ans at the end straddling canyons(the spider walk) before ending up at a magnificent pool , Kermit's Pool.
we then explored the next adventurous gorge, Weano Gorge to Handrail pool. This one started off with a deeper section of water you could either wade through and get wet to your chest, or wade across part of the way at knee height and then do some scaling along a very narrow rock wall. We all went for the last option except for Harry who had remembered that we still had boogey boards on the car roof and thought it would be a good idea to paddle across.
We then walked a bit furteh on rock scrambling, crossing streams on stepping stones before you come to a tricky narrow chasm you have to climb through and you get to a handrail which you climb down to get to the magnificent swimming pool that awaits you. That wasnt quite enough excitement for the kids so they decided to climb some of the rock walls that were surrounding us.
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| If you look carefully you can see Emma's head right at the top of the left hand column of rock, Maddy is mid-way, Pete is on his way to help Emma - not that she needed it but she was giving me a heart attack! |
We all finished the day with that exhausted feeling of contentment you get after having a physically demanding but fun day.
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