Posted on 28 August 2025
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Mum After three big days of walking in the gorges we took it a bit slower today. In
the morning the kids finished their junior ranger workbooks and we went to the
visitors centre to get them signed off. The ranger had them do a pledge, a
welcome to country, and sign their books with red dirt hand prints before they
could become official Karijini Junior Rangers.
Then we went on a drive to see some of the wildflowers that were blooming in the
park.
To wrap up our day we walked back down Dales Gorge to Fern Pool for a swim out
to the waterfall and back.
Posted on 25 August 2025
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Mum 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.
