Blogs from Karijini National Park, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Here are just some random photos, cannot really remember when these things took place, but it is somewhere during our drive from Perth to Broome... I have overtaken my first road train, very nervous experience, very long and the carriages swings around alot and it is carrying LPG... Then we saw some really big termite nests, everyone got excited about it... the mounds are dotted all over the outback... Leaving coral bay, we headed straight towards Exmouth, rather disappointing, because although the beach is really nice up there, it did not have the abundance of marine life off the beach as seen in coral bay, most of the beach there just have sandy bottoms, good for a swim, but no reef... really have to take a boat out to Ningaloo reef... I really wanted to do ... read more

Dales Gorge(closed) over to Eco Retreat(ER) near Weano Gorge(WG) and Hancock Gorge(HG)(10386 km to 10440 km ) CADES DIARY -Days 61 to 63 Weano Gorge -Hand rail pool- used hand rail to climb down ~5 m to large rock pool Handcock Gorge - spider walk to Kermit's pool which had platform to jump off into plunge pool and I even found a water slide. Kalimna Gorge; Dales Gorge ;Fortescue Falls; Fern Pool and Circular Pool which had a ledge to jump off into plunge pool and was my favourite Karinjini swimming hole.... read more

Kalamina Gorge(K) and Dales Gorge(DG) area open so we went there and did loop walk to Fern Pool(FP), Fortescue Falls(F), Circular Pool and 3 ways lookout(3)(10476 km to 10576 km)... read more

We were up really early again to get on the road. We had a long drive ahead of us. We left Exmouth at 6:30am and we arrived in the mining town of Tom Price just after lunch time. We ate our lunch in the park and then stocked up on any supplies we needed. In the afternoon we drove the one and a half hours into Karijini National Park. We were staying at the eco retreat out there which has all solar powered heating for the showers and eco tents with bunk beds in them. Is a really cool place to stay in the middle of no where haha. We all got changed and headed down to Joffre gorge which was right behind the tents we were staying at. Took us only a few minutes to ... read more

Here we are then at Karijini National Park, via a free overnight stay north of Port Hedland, a damp overnight at Auski Roadhouse and 2 nights too many in Port Hedland, sorry guys this place is the pits, well to be accurate, mountains. Mountains of iron ore, rock salt and many other minerals are piled high ready for loading at the docks, where at any one time there can be up to 25 container ships awaiting to receive their cargo. BHP Billiton alone ships 100 million tonnes of iron ore per year, with 300 million tonnes being the target in the coming years. At an average of $40 per tonne, not bad! Anyway, what happened on Saturday 11th as we set off from Port Hedland to Auski Roadhouse? Two things, it rained and rained, and we ... read more