Way Away in WA 2023 – Day 17 – Karajini National Park

The view from behind our cabin of Mount Nameless (yes it is called that locally) although it has had an Indigenous name for thousands of years – Jarndunmunha. No-one asked the Aboriginal people what it was called.

There are a lot of Little Corellas in Tom Price town area. Tom Price is the highest town in WA at 747 metres above sea level. It was named after the Vice-President of Kaiser Steel -an American mining company. Tom Price one of the main initiators and supporters of the opening up of the Pilbara region to iron ore mining.

Native Bachelor buttons (Gomphrena canescens) lined the road outside Tom Price

Karajini National Park is Western Australia’s second largest national park. The traditional custodians of Karijini National Park are the Banjima, Innawongka and Eastern Guruma people.

Karajini Drive goes through the middle of the park past Mt Bruce – Punurrhunha)

Visitor Centre – designed to blend into the environment

Korg took a break from MCU and hung out at Karajini with some bros.

Desert velvet firebush (Keraudrenia velutina ssp)

Native cassia (Senna sp)

Grevillea wickhamii is found on drier ridges

Dales Gorge Day Use Area

The ridge tops were covered with spinifex.

Circular Pool Lookout

Dales Gorge

Gorge with Fortescue Falls

A series of stairs and platforms descends into the gorge.

Here it is much cooler with a contrast of green against the reds instead of the yellow of the spinifex above.

Fortescue Falls

Fortescue Falls is Karijini’s only permanent waterfall. Fed by a spring, it cascades more than 20 metres down a series of natural rock steps into a fern-lined pool.