Kalbarri National Park covers almost 200,000 hectares, it’s main features are the gorges that have been cut by the Murchison river.
To access the river and gorge areas it was necessary to travel 25km down a not very well maintained unmade road. I discovered that it was better to travel at about 40km/hour rather than go slow as the vehicle rode over the corrugations without so much vibration. The problem with this was watching out for potholes and dust bowls.
This fossil is approximately 400,000,000 years old and is the track of an amphibious arthropod called euyrpterid one of the earths earliest land dwellers.
This is an area of the Murchison Gorge called Z bend, because of the time of day the contrast between shade and full sunlight makes photographs very difficult
There is a footpath down through the gorge, if one had the energy for the walking and climbing it would be fun to stay here a few days. Unfortunately no camping is allowed so it would be necessary to travel in every day. A considerable number of people do this.
At the other end of the gorge about 12km away is an area called the loop and natures window. The gorge follows a loop and there is a walking track around the top. We walked part of it as far as natures window.
Kalbarri Park was a very beautiful area and the pictures do not do it justice. This was a very enjoyable day.
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