Karajini National Park

Dales Campground!

Now, pull your mind back to before all the dramas (and Exmouth) and we're in Karajini National Park.

If we thought we had left the beautiful scenery behind in the Kimberly, we were definitely mistaken. Karajini had some spectacular scenery, and the gorges were amazing. Even better, you could actually swim in the gorges due to the absence of crocs.

In my books, Karajini was definitely better than the Kimberly in terms of swimming!!

Fortescue Falls

We stayed at Dales campground, our first time in free camping for a while. We did have some trouble finding the toilets at first, but we found them pretty quickly when we needed them!

All the fish nibbling our feet!

Our first stop was at Fortescue falls, where we took the easy descent down (easy down, hard up) to the plunge pool. The water was a bit chilly, but it was refreshing. After swimming around for a bit, we got out and headed down to Fern Pool.

We decided not to go for a swim there, and us kids just sat on the edge of the pool dipping our feet in. We soon found an additional attraction, as the little fish lurking under the pier began nibbling our feet. We all had some fun sitting there, and our feet came out much cleaner. I'm glad the fishes managed to get a free meal off us!

We then drove out to Circular pool, and got a photo from the lookout. Making the decision to only stay one night and head off early, we then raced off to see the other gorges around, and to get some photos before dark.

The roads to the gorges were all pretty corrugated, and we had one person who had to keep an eye on the back door of the car so we could see when it rattled open! All of a sudden somebody would yell out stop, and then run around and close the boot before it flew wide open!! I just braced myself and hoped I didn't get my head too hard.

We would pull up at each gorge, the door would fly open and all the dust would slowly drift out. Meanwhile, us older kids and dad would walk to the lookout and snap a few photos. It would have been lovely to stay longer, but there wasn't time.

So we set off from the lovely Karajini, unaware of all the dramas facing us.

See you next time!!

Pretty nice sunset!