Joffre Falls

We headed back into Karijini National Park to see yet more red rocks, gorges and swimming holes. We weren't disappointed as Joffre falls area was all that. The walk down to the water was quite rugged with lots of rock steps then multiple steel ladders to negotiate. Once at the bottom we had to wade through to the water hole.

The water........well that was a few degrees cooler than normal. I think we got there too early before the sun could heat it. But as we have come all this way we felt that a swim was mandatory. Was more like a dip under then a dash back out to warm up. Quite a climb back to the ute for lunch then along a rough dirt road to Knox gorge.

We walked to the lookout and checked out the gorge walk. This track came with a few warnings of the track quality where experience was needed, 2 litres of water each etc. We decided not to do this track and headed back to camp via supermarket and fuel as tomorrow we head west and will stay overnight somewhere. Today's trip was about 160km with about 20km of rough dirt road. The red dust here is so fine and dark and gets into every nook of the ute. Everything we touch is coated. We are looking forward to heading south away from the dust and probably replacing it with sand.

We are really pleased we made the trip into Karajini however. The natural landscapes have been amazing and the rock gorges are incredible.En savoir plus