We'd heard lots of great things about Karijini National Park and so left ourselves nearly 3 days to spend there, which I'm so glad we did. On the surface, the park is just some lovely landscape, but it's what's below the surface that's so great: gorges galore. And at the bottom of most of them, croc-free (we're not really in croc country quite yet--stay tuned!), swimming safe natural pools! Heaven on a hot day.
At the pool pictured just above, which is a special site for Aboriginals, there came all this clatter from the tree above the ladder down into the pool, and we looked up to find several dozen bats restlessly hanging from the branches.
We're also firmly in spinifex country, its golden waves very characteristically Australian.
The amateur geologist in me loved all of the amazing rock faces in and around these gorges and pools, and though we were hopelessly covered in iron-red dust by the time we finally left the park, I was so happy.
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