Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 15:13
Did some of it last month. Lennard
Gorge is now a 1.5km walk in and is up
hill and down dale and was very warm when we did it.
Adcock Gorge is very pretty and you can drive to within 10m of the water. Enjoyed
Mornington Wilderness Camp but you need to pre-book. Charnley River has a very good
camping area and in my mind easier accessed gorges to Mornington. Good swimming though at Mornington at Cadjeput & Bluebush. If you're into canoeing then you can hire canoes at Mornington. Mornington also has a bar and restaurant with a talk by an environmentalist at night that was extremely interesting. Fires and fishing aren't permitted at Mornington or Charnley River. Mornington provide gas BBQ's in a number of
places with BBQ tables and benches and water taps. Good facilities as
well. Charnley has a centralised BBQ and 2 ablution blocks. WFI is also available.
Galvans Gorge is always beautiful.
Bell Gorge had plenty of water flowing over the falls as
well. The camping ground at
Silent Grove has grown from when we were previously there and also more facilities.
One really pretty spot and
well worth an
overnight camp was at Donkey Creek, which wasn't named on my maps. We had lunch there and it was very nice in deed, plenty of shade, nice lily filled creek, flat and stacks of cleared ground for camping, whatever you style. From the number of old fire pits I'd say it was a popular spot with some.
Had to turn back at Mt Barnet as my rear long range tank got a fracture in it and was poring fuel. Found out when I'd just put 160L in it didn't I. The fracture was in an inaccessible spot so was a real bugger.
Road was a mixed bag with some really corrugated sections. We did the Karungi Track out of
Wyndham and some how or another we ended up driving through the scarp on a rather interesting bit of track. got to the GRR at the Pentacost right on dark and then copped some horror corrugations, (always feel and look worse at night), from there to the bitumen at the EQ turn-off.
Enjoy the drive and everything you see along the way.
Dunc
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Follow Up By: vk1dx - Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 16:27
Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 16:27
"Lennard
Gorge is now a 1.5km walk in and is up
hill and down dale"
Ouch!!! That's stuffed the place for me.
I didn't wanna go anyway so there! "Picture Phil spitting the dummy"
Phil
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Follow Up By: Life Member - Duncan W (WA) - Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 19:04
Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 19:04
Like you Phil the previous time we went we drove all the way to the top of the
hill where the
carpark was. Now there is no sign of a track or the car park. This trip just about blew a puffer valve and we didn't even walk down to the top of
the gorge as that bit was the steepest.
One cancellation I've got the photos from my previous trip to prove I've been there done that. LOL
Cheers
Dunc
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Follow Up By: vk1dx - Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 19:13
Monday, Aug 29, 2016 at 19:13
It is so frustrating. I have had a very healthy life and been fit 99% of it. Being now blocked from going to somewhere that I easily walk before is a real pain. Luckily we have done most of the bucket list #2.
Catchya
Phil
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