The first day in Karijini we walked through Dales Gorge, checking out three swimming holes and their waterfalls. They were all beautiful swimming holes, with the big red cliffs around them and Fortescue Falls was the best falls by far. The boys all found some places where they could climb the cliffs to jump in the water.
The next day we moved over to Hancock and Weano Gorges and these were awesome fun to explore, especially down the ‘Spider Walk’ in Handcock Gorge and the ‘Handrail Walk’ in Weano Gorge. At these sections you had walk with your hands and feet on either side of the gorge straddling the freezing water running underneath you. For anyone who used to love climbing up the hallway at home like a spider to touch the roof (before your Mum told to get down and stop putting foot and hand prints all over the walls), then it was just like doing that, except that you not only had to climb up but then you had to work your way along the Gorge as a spider. In other sections you just had to climb across one of the faces of the gorge finding little holds for your feet and hands as you went. You would continually work your way through little narrow sections like these and then it would open up to a pool before narrowing off again. We went as far as we could through the Gorges before it got to the sections where the only way to continue was to abseil, if we had abseil gear with us we would have continued, but unfortunately that was not something we had thought of packing to bring on this trip!
Anyone heading over to WA and coming past this area, we strongly recommend you pay Karijini National Park a visit!
We have got slide shows working again, so here is a quick slide show of some of our photos from Karijini. 
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