Day 87
Our early morning wake up call is the eerie sound of a pack of dingoes howling nearby....We pack up camp and do the rest of the gorge walks finishing at Fortescue Falls, a lovely way to end a visit to in my opinion "The most spectacular inland Nat Park in OZ". While my first pool of the day in Knox Gorge at 9am was ...mmmm....COLD...no freezing, the next few got incressingly warmer as the sun moved overhead and while some earlier pools were just a jump in gasp and squeal and back out again, the others were just glorious. Favourites being Circular pool and fern pool . The day of course was not all about swimming, the colours and rock formations of the sheer cliffs in the gorges was breathtaking and it's hard to imagine as you drive through the dusty spinifex and shrub hills that something so incredible hides in between. As we walk along the bottom of the fern covered gorge floors hopping across rocks in the the streams you can imagine you are in a "Lost City". As we have now seen all the gorges and it's getting late we reluctantly decide to leave this magnificent park.The Dales campground is filling up fast we decide to try and make a roadside free camp tonight on our way north to Millstream nat. park. About 20km before the Auski roadhouse we pull up to a nice spot with about 5 other vehicles, the only drawback is no loo’s!!! but we are able to have a fire which has been rare so far on the trip.
Our early morning wake up call is the eerie sound of a pack of dingoes howling nearby....We pack up camp and do the rest of the gorge walks finishing at Fortescue Falls, a lovely way to end a visit to in my opinion "The most spectacular inland Nat Park in OZ". While my first pool of the day in Knox Gorge at 9am was ...mmmm....COLD...no freezing, the next few got incressingly warmer as the sun moved overhead and while some earlier pools were just a jump in gasp and squeal and back out again, the others were just glorious. Favourites being Circular pool and fern pool . The day of course was not all about swimming, the colours and rock formations of the sheer cliffs in the gorges was breathtaking and it's hard to imagine as you drive through the dusty spinifex and shrub hills that something so incredible hides in between. As we walk along the bottom of the fern covered gorge floors hopping across rocks in the the streams you can imagine you are in a "Lost City". As we have now seen all the gorges and it's getting late we reluctantly decide to leave this magnificent park.The Dales campground is filling up fast we decide to try and make a roadside free camp tonight on our way north to Millstream nat. park. About 20km before the Auski roadhouse we pull up to a nice spot with about 5 other vehicles, the only drawback is no loo’s!!! but we are able to have a fire which has been rare so far on the trip.
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