Barn Hill Station 10/6/15 This is a little gem! Camp ground is basic offering open showers and toilets, just surrounded by corrugated iron, all that can be seen are legs and heads! And once in the know, shower before sunset, the water is heated by sun in black pipes lying on the ground - I guess that's solar? It's worth staying for the vanilla slice they are known for, baked at the station kitchen, and not to mention the Orange cliffs dropping into the blue wat...

Pardoo Station 9/6/15 Amazing landscapes of spinifex covered mountain ranges with bands of exposed orange and black sandstone, that's the Hammersley Ranges! The landscape flattens out to clumps of Boulder covered plains further towards Port Headland. Called into Port Headland for a look and enjoyed lunch at the old railwagon restaurant, destination Pardoo Station. Just 50 km off the GNH and the road in is well maintained. Pardoo is still a working station, t...

Karijini NP 3/6/15 This is the NP we've been hearing lots about. We have booked into Dales Gorge Campground and been allocated a Kangaroo Loop site by the camp hosts. Karijini is the aboriginal word for, as we know it, the Hamersley Ranges. There is a wide selection of mostly gorges to trek, all of varying difficulty. We have been well prepared from our hike in Mt Augustus to tackle just about anything!! This is a refreshing park, plenty of choice, either walk ...

Newman 31/5/15 Destination Karijini NP, but due to the unseasonal rain, the Ashburton Downs road is closed and we have been advised to take the Woodlands turn off to the Three Rivers Road which we did, via Newman. However, we drove and plodded along on this grass paddock road, very little signage and what was there was quite obscure. Fortunately Steve has a sense of direction and we were heading the right way. There were visions of headlines 'couple stranded in ...

Mt Augustus 28/5/15 This is the beginning of the dust!! Now on the Cobra Dairy Rd, Cobra being a station but now encompassed in the NP as of the mid 1980's.Mt Augustus is visible from approx 100 km since it is the largest rock in the world, termed an 'inselberg' or island mountain, it is striking even from a distance. Mt Augustus is still a working station, privately owned and the side business of tourism complements the station operation. It was easy to take th...