We left reasonably early and drove down to the 'main' area of Karijini to do as much as we could.
First walk was up to the lookouts that over looked the gorges, they are very deep and the look outs give you the butterflies if you're not good with heights like me!
Then we did the class 5 walk down into Joffre Gorge. It had very steep steps and natural rocks toclimb down into the gorge.
You then walk through freezing water to get to a very narrow ledge walk that was extremely daunting. It had tiny little ledges you had to cat walk around hanging on for dear life to the rock formation above you. One slip and you're in the freezing water below.
I chose to stay low down near the water because I knew if i fell the cold water wouldn't kill me but if i was up higher and fell a hit on the head might!
We both very cautiously made our way through this scary section into what they call the amphitheatre. As nice as it all is, we have been very spoilt with the gorges on the Gibb and the Bungle Bungles so while we liked it of course, it certainly wasn't as outstanding as the others we have seen.
We climbed back out of the gorge safely and went to do another gorge called hand rail pool. But half way into it we saw there was no real water and the risk wasn't going to match the reward. Plus there are signs everywhere saying there have been fatalities in these gorges, so not exactly confidence inspiring.
We did contemplate walking down to another gorge which is only class 3 but we think it was dry so we settled to get photos from above.
We popped into the Karijini eco lodge and they made burgers so we payed $52 for two burgers and chips. And to our amusement the chips were actual potato chips, not the fries type, the packet variety you would have with a beer haha
However the burger was nice enough, not $52 nice but thats the price you pay out here.
We then went back to camp and karen did a little bit of hand washing.
We had tea, watched the footy and went to bed, not overly impressed with Karijini. Sure we can see why people rave about the place but not if youv'e already been totally spoilt like we have and see the places we saw already.