It is always an easy pack up when you're still connected up to the Caravan from the day before, so we hit the road pretty early.
Same road, same large trucks one after the other. In fact we could hear them all night last night so they work 24 hours a day.
We were not far from the main junction where there is a road house for much needed diesel. This is also where the road turns off onto the gravel to go Hamersley Gorge or continues on down the bitumen to go to Karijini Visitor centre and the rest of the gorges in the national park.
We wanted to see hamersley gorge so we went down the gravel road which for the most part was a well maintained road. Very dusty of course but not overly rough.
We arrived at our free camp pretty early in the day, we set up and drove down the road to the Gorge.
Now this gorge is what they call a grade 5 walk into it. And oh my god it was dangerous. Not a long walk by any means but just slippery rocks with no support at all.
In fact in the very first climb I slipped and slid down a rock straight into the water below! Of course there was an audience and I had our back pack on and carrying my good camera which all got submerged but luckily the camera is water proof.
I was probably more embarrassed than anything but I wasn't on my own, it is a common spot for the same thing to happen to others.
Those with very grippy foot wear were seemingly doing it fine, but my shoes had zero grip at all.
We sat and watch others for a little contemplating how we were going to get ourselves into this place. I managed to find another way which was no where near as dangerous as the official track.
We couldn't quite get ourselves all the way into the end as we were seeing other falling and risking too much to do it. It is just not worth it for us. We could have swam in to get to the end but it was also freezing haha
After spending some time in the gorge we attempted to come back out the way I slipped earlier. Karens shoes were really grippy so she managed to get down ok but again mine had no grip at all on this iron ore rock so I went back around the 'safe' way!!
We then went around to a couple of look outs before leaving.
That was all that we could do in this area of the park so we went back to camp and collected some firewood to have a fire.
We cooked tea and used the fire to keep us warm while we cooked it before heading inside and to bed.