23 August 2016 - 184 198
Keep River National Park and Goodbye Northern Territory
Up and away to Keep River National Park. https://nt.gov.au/leisure/parks-reserves/find-a-park/find-a-park-to-visit/keep-river-national-park We headed for the far end of the national
park to do the Jarnem Walk first (8km, 2.5 hours). This was beautiful, there were a great
variety of different areas of vegetation.
The rocks were amazing, the escarpment was a sedimentary rock with red
and brown layers that were eroding at different rates – a lot like I imagine
the Bungle Bungles would have been before they eroded into separate
pillars. We enjoyed a picnic lunch in
the shade at the Jarnem Campground. We
then headed off to do the Jenamoom Walk (3km, 1 hour), this was not
particularly interesting and was quite hot with lots of biting insects.
The next stop was the Goorrandalng Campground
where we did a walk (2km, 1 hour) through stunning rock formations and a number
of different vegetation types. I found
this walk amazing, the colours of the rocks against the sky and vegetation were
stunning. Our last walk for the day was
to Ginger’s Hill, this was a small circular stone wall with branches over the
top; these were built throughout the area by aboriginal peoples, and were used
for catching birds of prey.
Overall, Keep River National Park is an awesome small park with great campgrounds - it's only downside is its distance from major centres, otherwise I think this would be on the must do list for more people. Next we
headed west to the border. We had to
stop and open up the car and van for the border quarantine check, and then on
to Kununurra. We are booked in to
Kimberleyland Holiday Park for the next two nights and may extend this once we
decide what we wish to do in the area.
Once we had set up the van, we all headed off for well deserved and well
desired showers.
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