Day 69: Karijini Free Camp to Karijini National Park

Today started with a beautiful sunrise over the hills of Karijini National Park. Once we packed up camp we headed to the visitors centre in the park to get our maps and some suggestions of what order to do all the gorge walks in. We then drove out to our campsite at Dales Gorge.

Once we had set up camp we walked out to the Circular Pool Lookout. We then continued along the rim of Dales Gorge before descending the 300 stairs to Fortescue Falls. From the falls we walked up the gorge (past a tree full of bats) to Fern Pool for a look, and regretted not bringing our swimmers. We then walked back down the gorge until just before Circular Pool, where we climbed back up out of the gorge and made our way home to camp. All up our hike was around 8km - a bit longer than we were expecting but a great introduction to the gorges of the park.

Back at camp for the night, Olivia sat down with Dad to teach him how to crochet so they could make matching axolotls.