Arrived via the visitor centre and directed to the camp host check-in hut.
Gwen (COO) and underated side kick Rod were very welcoming sharing knowledge and how to best spend the next 2 and a half days..so we set up camp in our designated spots, nice shady camp near the toilet block… red dirt and rock sticking to everything and everyone…quick drive to various lookouts to gain some perspective on our location, and back to camp to prepare for tomorrow..
First off we walked down to Fortescue Falls and onto Fern Pool, words can’t describe the beauty of the place, see photos….walked along the base of the gorge and ascended the other end via a series of ladders and lots of rock crawling……..we then decided to have a quick bite and back to fern pool for a swim….the water was refreshingly cool, but after a few minutes you got used to it…back to camp and same again tomorrow, this time another series of gorges about 40km away.
These gorges were different and probably harder to negotiate…wading through water, hand rails to hold onto and rocks…sliding across rock walls, spider walking between vertical walls a meter apart…
Nothing more to say, but stunning.
