Up and early out. Print, post, ice – 9:30am heading out on the Gibb River Road – I think Sach very happy! Bitumen road to start & then cuts down to 1 lane bitumen & then a few kms further onto the rough corrugated stuff. Travelled about 180km to the turn off to Winjana Gorge – about 30km there where we set up the trailer against the backdrop of these black spiky-looking mountains. Just after 3pm we headed down to Tunnel Creek to do this walk through a creek through a subterranean cave. Wow what an amazing place – we did see quite a few people but you would not have thought so for the place we walked into. We could hardly even find our way in – we had to climb through rocks and nobody had made up any nice path to walk down that's for sure – it was pretty hard going getting through or working our whether we were in fact going the right way.

1st water crossing at start, water almost up the top of your legs, some sandy bits, some stalactites, some small lizards that Sach thought were little crocs at the beginning, a snake & lots of bats. Had to have a torch to get through – thank goodness we’d brought at least 1 good 1 – the rest were pretty poor in there. Had to walk up to naval in parts, but its warm and wow was it worth it. Got to a pool at the end and the girls had a bot of a splash around – they’re always thrilled to find water at the end of a long trip. Getting late by then so we headed back – back to the car just as it was getting dark only to realise that Sach had left the car lights on – oh dear! Some really nice family we’d seen at the end pool coming out had waiting with their 2 little children in the car for the half hr for us to come out to make sure we weren’t stranded down there for the night. With no mobile service I think we would have been if the car didn’t start up – but the Beast did – of course.

Back to camp to find it a lot fuller than we’d left it – a big group of 4 or so cars of French people right next to us – I do not think we will be finding any serenity in ol’ WA I think!