Day 49 - Karijini National Park Today we had a very lazy morning and then went to Dales Gorge. We first walked to Fortescue Falls lookout then we continued the steep descent to Fortescue Falls which were very pretty. We then continued upstream along the gorge floor to Fern Pool. This is a beautiful natural pool with very clear water and the small fish congregate around the ladder, which Josh loves. Rog and the kids both had a swim but I decided to wait till aft...

30/8 Day 48 - Albert Tognolini Rest Area to Karijini National Park (73km/1hr) We enjoyed watching the sunrise, Rog did some work on the car and the kids went and chatted to the French backpackers. We left the rest area at 9:30am for our short drive to Karijini National Park which is the 2nd largest park in WA. We went to the visitor information centre to purchase our 4 week national park pass and then we checked into our campsite at Dales Campground (we are ...

Day 47 - Eighty Mile Beach to Albert Tognolini Lookout Rest Area (525kms/7hrs) We were up early so the boys could go fishing before check out. The beach was so different as it was a high tide of 7.12m. There were lots of people on the beach with their 4WD and beach buggy’s all fishing. Rog caught a big fish pretty much straight away but we didn’t know what it was so we released it. We later found out it was a blue salmon. He then caught a tiny fish and anot...

126kms After a noisy night last night (the miners were driving around and calling out and drinking all night) we actually got moving early. We were on the rusty red road by 8:30am. Our first stop in Karijini National Park was around 9:30am at the Junction Pool Lookout and Oxer Lookout which is the junction of 4 major gorges in the National Park - the Red gorge, Weano gorge, Hancock gorge & Joffre gorge. The scenery was beautiful. We then walked the Hancoc...

147 kms / 4 hrs Halfway Bridge - Tom Price (fuel & shop) - Karijini National Park We left Halfway Bridge around 8am for the short 36km drive into Tom Price. We did a big shop in Coles then filled up with fuel (we bought enough food to give us a 40 cent discount on fuel which saved us about $40). We then continued onto Karijini National Park which is the 2nd largest park in WA and our campsite at Dales Campground (we are at Kangaroo site 47). The sites ...