We
rushed from the camp area to Tom Price Tourist Info only to find that
the tour to the Tom Price mine had left for the day. On most days it starts at the inconvenient time of 10am....don't they realise people are on holidays? To commiserate we went
shopping for food and beer!
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| Big Tonka Toy at Tom Price |
Then it was off to Karajini National Park
to see if we could have more success there. The
Karijini Visitors Centre was worth a visit with a poignant display of
the areas aboriginal history as well as a history of how the area's
rocks formed.
We
stayed at the Dales camp ground in a spacious, shady area. It was
close to many of the popular and less arduous walks and gorges (levels 1-4 for those in the know).
Karajini NP certainly lived up to its reputation of being one of the
most spectacular parks in WA. It offered a multitude of riches, with
spectacular rust-red vertical gorges, flanked by spinifex, red-gums
and wild-flowers leading down to waterfalls and swimmable pools.
Over
the next couple of days, the kids did their best impersonations of
rock-wallabies, clambering up and down terraced gorges during half day
walks. From Dayles, we took a walk encompassing Fortesuce Falls,
Circular Pool and ending in a refreshing swim at the tranquil and
beautiful Fern Pool. Simply a magical place. All the kids gave it a
go, with most making it to the water-fall which supplied sun-warmed
water to Fern Pool.
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| Circular Pool from above |
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| Circular Pool |
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| Having a go Geo-caching |
Jordan
took a real interest in the wild-flowers, and with a couple of newly
acquainted books is becoming a bit of botanist. Flowers such as
purple mulla-mulla are starting to enter our vocabulary. We're starting up a flora page on the blog. Help us name the flowers!
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| Jordan the Botanist |
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| Hey dude, now you're taking it way too seriously |
We
took some heavily corrugated roads and travelled approx 30km to reach
another set of impressive gorges and walks in the Weano area. This
offered more challenging walks and the lookouts provided amazing views
of ridiculously sheer drops.
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Rock art
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| Lots of scrabbling up rocks |
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| Time for a break |
The 2nd July was also Jasmine's birthday so in the morning we she received all her many presents. I know know what was taking all the space in the camper-trailer!!!!
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| Happy Birthday Jasmine! |
We
also said goodbye to Nick, Brigid, Conor and Daniel as we started to
go in different paths. Our paths may intersect as we head further
north.
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| See you soon! |
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