14 September 2016 – 187 123
Windjana National Park; Gibb River Road
https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/windjana-gorge
We drove through our first water crossing actually on the Gibb River Road (not a side road and not a puddle, an actual creek). The road from the Gibb River Road to the national park was impressively rough, cut up from the recent rain. We set up camp and had lunch. As we approached the campground Hayden and Drew both exclaimed that the external gorge walls looked like the Gates to Mordore. Our first walk for the afternoon was the Time Walk combined with the Gorge Walk. https://trailswa.com.au/trails/time-walk-windjana-gorge/print The time walk gave a close up view of the coral reef structure in the gorge walls and impression fossils were visible in many places. At the end of this we walked over to the main waterhole where there were a very large number of freshwater crocodiles. There were also some researchers catching and then releasing the crocodiles. The Gorge Walk was hot and unpleasant with no particular views – I would not recommend this one, it would be bottom of my list of walks for the holiday. Walking back along the track Hayden was felled by a Flying Fox that flew straight into the back of his head. The other walk we did was the Savannah Walk which was a short walk and fairly pretty. The campground is lovely, my recommendations about the walks would be do the Time Walk and have a look at the freshwater crocodiles in the waterhole and then return to camp.
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