Karijini National Park

After heading south from Broome we moved into the ancient, dry landscape of the Pilbara. We drove along 80 mile Beach, then into the astoundingly ugly and industrial town of Port Hedland, and after a few more hours we made it to the awesome free camp outside of Karinjini. This National park is traditionally owned by Banyjima, Innawonga and Kurrama people and is an absolute oasis in what seems like an incredibly harsh and dry environment.

From here we then spent 3 days exploring the parks incredible gorges, hiking up Mt Bruce (2nd tallest mountain in WA) and admiring the interesting formations caused by the many many layers of iron slab, that then get warped and curled through tectonic plate movements. Apparently the rocks here are over 2.5 billion years old - mind blowingRead more