Kennedy {National Park}

Wednesday morning and we wake ready for pack down {which turned out to be the rain again} and for Kalebs Centra lesson with SIDE, his first in a few weeks due to no Internet, flat laptops and forgetful parents. A quick stop on the way out to get another wonderful watermelon, some bread and more bananas for the fruit bats.

As we headed out on the Carnarvon Mullewa Road the rain started again and pretty much followed us all the way to Rocky Gully Pool where we decided to pull in for a look. it was a lovely looking place with paths to the left and right. A great place to spend a few nights had the rain not arrived but given what the road in was like as we drove in we decided it was safer to keep on our way to the Kennedy Ranges as planned. {good decision given how slippery the road was as we headed out, even after the rain just starting}

We arrived at the National Park around 2pm and managed to get here before the rain, which was nice and gave us enough time to throw the camper up and get the smalls settled inside playing Lego out of the wind and rain. The rain didn't last long but it was truly cold, so a few small wonders but really to be able to camp at the bottomed these ranges was an experience in itself.

Thursday we decided to head straight out to have a look around before the smalls got tired. We went out to Drapers agree first and walked around 1km before we decided it was too much for Kyla and started to wander back. A lovely place, with so many different landscapes all in the same place. Next we headed across the park to Honeycomb Gorge which was exactly as the name says, the wall of the a gorge looks exactly like honeycomb. As we drove in Kyla spotted what we think might have been a wallaby but we cant be sure. We came ome for school work and lunch and spent the afternoon crafting, learning, baking and watching the smalls play with a new friend that they had made. J pottered around, I finished another ok and started knitting a little more.

As the sun finally came out around 330pm our neighbours popped over and we decided to go for a walk up the closest gorge for a look. The three older children wandered ahead and we walked all the way in but given the time decided to leave the 'climbing' portion for another day. A camp fire, left over curry and crumple with custard was a great way to finish an almost perfect day {damn clouds and chilli wind}

Friday saw us heading for the Escarpment Trail early in the morning and given it was a class for they did really well. It was a great trail up between the gorges and then up the side onto the very top, we looked down over the plain and our camper looked tiny. We did some school work in the afternoon, then Kyla and I napped while the boys did a little more. We decided we would leave the next day after walking up a Temple Gorge.

On our final day we packed down the camper and headed out to Temple Gorge just before 9am to take a walk up it and check it out. It was yet another amazing gorge with most of this walk taking place up the empty riverbed. The rock formations really are something else with no two looking the same.

We headed out from the Kennedy Ranges at around 11am to make our journey to Mt Augustus