Up early again this morning so that we could do the 7km walk into Windjana Gorge before it got too hot but also because we often manage to have the places to ourselves when we are early. This was no exception.
The cliffs of the limestone range of the Devonian reef are incredibly high in places here and contain nautiloid fossils
There were plenty of fresh water crocs in the little water that is remaining in the Lennard River that flows through the gorge
After packing up camp at Windjana we headed for Tunnel Creek and didn’t quite manage to get into the tunnel before a bus load of people on a tour. Fortunately they only went half way through the tunnel and by the time we got to the end of the tunnel and back they had left so we did manage to have a lot of the time in the tunnel to ourselves.
It was fun and an interesting experience, climbing over big rocks first at the entrance to the tunnel then wading through water seeing our way with torch light inside the tunnel. There were quite magnificent stalagmites and stalactites, with bats flying through them and fish in the water.
We had our picnic lunch in the car park before heading back out south along the Fairfield Leopold Downs Road, stopping off at the RAAF Boab Quarry to bush camp for the night. Interesting place, apparently it was used as a quarry for stone for the RAAF Air base at Curtin, hence the name of the site. We had the place to ourselves originally which was rather nice until after dark when a couple of vehicles turned up, but they stopped quite some distance from where we were. Other than them we shared the site with a couple of bulls and some roos.
Thought I had better let you know I have been reading the blog - I soooo want to go here! It looks awesome!
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