Hiked 25km of the Gorge

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  Carnarvon Gorge QLD, Queensland, Australia
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

We drove to the Visitor Area & Ranger Hut where the walks through the gorge started. We decided to do the longest one first & did approx 25km today. The weather was quite warm especially when in full sun. The path meandered through the bottom of the gorge crossing over Carnarvon creek several times by stepping stones from side to side. It actually crossed 22 times in the 9.7km walk to " Big Bend" at the end.









We sat & had a picnic lunch by a swimming hole & the water was icy cold, which was nice to cool your feet off in. Nath hadn't tried on his walking shoes for a few months & discovered that he had grown out of them . Walking this distance in thongs was very uncomfortable.







On the way back we did a few of the side tracks many of which were quite steep. We visited Art Gallery & Cathedral Cave to see some aboriginal rock art. It is mostly like stencils of handprints on the 62 m long sandstone wall. One of my favourite side tracks was Boowinda Gorge – it is an increasingly narrowing gorge with steep sides & lots of ferns. One of the kind of places you would have no hope if a flash flood occurred.





We met the aboriginal ranger who walks these tracks everyday to make sure everyone is OK







Each of these side tracks added more kilometres & by the end we were deliciously exhausted & sat back at our campsite enjoying the feeling of hard physical exertion!

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