Karijini - a gem in the middle of nowhere.

We decided to take the 4x4 track into the park. Huge mistake. It was getting up there with the Tanimi and the country had suddenly become flat and rather boring. Rough country is not so bad if it is stunning.
Fortunately we got the last site in Cockatoo loop ( the honorary Ranger Lady who signed us in was highly amused by her joke that we were the last Cockatoo in) and to be told no-one uses the track we took!


 After setting up and pouring a drink things seemed better. That was when we noticed this hill behind us.

At that point we could not quite work out where the gorge could be.
Next morning we set off by foot with a map to discover this incredible hole in the ground between us and the above hill.

                The path down was in keeping with the usual mountain goat category but these two old goats managed to make it.

Once down on the floor of the gorge it was another world.