We left around 10am today on our way west towards Exmouth, not sure of where we'd stop, but we wanted to see the NRL Grand Final between the Roosters and Manly scheduled to start at 4.15 this afternoon (WA time). The SatNav was pointing us back through Tom Price town, but Dad had seen another sign pointing to Nanutarra on the road where we were staying, so after getting petrol, we followed that one. 30kms later, we realised why, as we came across an unsealed r...

This morning, we were excited to go on the Rio Tinto Mine Tour. We arrived at the Visitor Information Centre with our closed in shoes, and there were 47 people in the group. 2 days ago, they still needed numbers in order for the tour to run - people sure came out of nowhere! We selected some very ill-fitting hardhats and safety glasses, and made our way onto the bus - our driver/guide was Bob - he turned out to be very knowledgeable. Bob took us through the...

Renee & Eamon were given activity books to complete by the Dales Campground Camp Hosts on arrival, and they duly completed about 90% of the activities in the 12 page book, and I signed the pages, etc as required in order for them to achieve 'Junior Ranger Status'. However, upon handing them in this morning, the 'rewards' had run out, so they were a little disappointed - it was a great idea and the kids learnt a lot from the activities, but the end result wa...

What a great day today! We headed to the western side of the National Park to see the various gorges over that side, and started with a couple of lookouts. The Joffre Lookout gave us a spectacular view of a curved waterfall - there was quite a long track around the gorge and then down, but we skipped it and moved on the Knox Lookout. Another beautiful outlook, and we could see all the pools of water along the gorge and some people were swimming down there, ho...

Dales Gorge was on our hit list today, so we went straight in that direction around 9am. The start of our loop was Fortescue Falls where we visited yesterday afternoon. We had a quick swim to cool us down before we took the walk along the base of the Gorge which was very pleasant and involved walking along lots of shale type ledges and stepping over parts of the water in gorge, making it pretty good fun. At the end of the gorge was a nice swimming spot called...