Winjana Gorge

Winjana Gorge
We arrived late in the afternoon after staying a bit long at Manning Gorge. Maggie and Bro at least were feeling all gorged out, but Winjana Gorge had a trump card up it's sleeve - the promise of seeing lots of crocodiles in the wild. We started down the walk though the Gothic-like limestone gorge walls and,sure enough, there they were in broad daylight floating on the surface or sunning themselves on the far bank.

From Winjana Gorge

It took some coaxing to get Maggie in for an afternoon dip further down the gorge, away for m the crocs.

At first we couldn't find the wall of fossils at the far end of the gorge, but after a bit of scouting around, we found them on the opposite side of the dry river bed. Subtle imprints of Devonian Corals which deposited the limestone which now forms the towering gorge walls.

From Winjana Gorge

On the walk back up the river bed there were lots of spots where the Euros had dug a hole in the sand for a drink of water rather than risk their necks drinking in the river.
We got back to camp under a bruised sky. That night, it let loose a nice heavy shower of rain. Nice until I stepped down to check the camp and found the tent floor floating.

From Winjana Gorge

We let Fabe Millie and Bro sleep on until the water started leaking in at the corners. Then Bro and Millie joined John up on the raised queen size bed above the trailer while Maggie and Fabe tried to sleep on the car seats. Neither camp slept well. Next morning, the tent was still standing in the deepest part of a puddle which covered a significant part of the campground.
I dug a drainage channel across the gravel perimeter road which was holding back most of the water, and we started mopping up the mess, before moving to higher ground.