More Karijini capers

After a shortish drive (155 K’s) we arrive at Auskii Roadhouse which is officially known as Munjina – this the where the turn off to Wittenoom is on the Gt Northern Hwy. Despite it’s spartan layout, it’s quite a good facility and much to our surprise, has no worries about water. We use the opportunity give the van and the car a well earned wash. It was good to finally out get all salt from the storm at Dongara all those weeks ago.

We returned to Dales Gorge and explored the parts we didn’t get to a couple of days ago. What a truly magic place this is. After walking down the very steep climb to the bottom we head for Circular Pool which is fed by a spring oozing from the rocks. Despite it being 34 degrees at the top of the gorge, it’s about 10 degrees cooler and stop to have lunch by the falls fed by Circular Pool.

We then head back along to gorge to Fortescue Falls where we went the other day and had a swim the pool. The water is quite cold (approx 12 degrees) and takes a bit of getting used to seeing it’s so hot here – glad we didn’t come here in the Summer!

To finish the day off we had our tea in the open air camp kitchen back at the roadhouse and was treated to a total eclipse of the moon which lasted about 90 minutes. We were lucky to be away from the light pollution of the city as we had a very clear view of it and was another one of those special moments. It’s day’s like this that justifies doing this trip.