Karijini National Park Joffre Gorge

Yesterday we continued driving East and was pleased to see the terrain start to change from the flat desert that we have been seeing alot recently. The main highlight was seeing hundreds of parakeets gathering by a 'river' if it can be called that. We stopped for the night at a campsite in Paraburdoo, the whole town is in existence because of the Rio Tinto mine there. It was interesting to see how the whole town had a military base feel about it without fences. It even had an outdoor cinema!
We are in the Hamersley Range in the heart of the Pilbara, that is known as Karijini to the local Aboriginal people. Today we visited Joffre Falls where we walked around the edge of the gorge and descended down into it. The waterfalls cascaded over banded iron formations giving it a stepped look into a narrow, steep gorge. It was good for climbing over as well as sitting in the bottom with walls towering above you. We are camping here for a couple of nights amongst the dingos (wild dogs).Read more