We left the resident “freshie’s” at Windjana and continued
our journey eastward. After a dip below the falls at Bell gorge, we turned off
the Gibb River Road again at the Barnet Roadhouse where we paid our
entry/camping fee for Manning Gorge and paid $2.40 per liter for diesel!!
It was a decent walk into Manning Gorge including a river crossing in a tin boat on a pully system but that meant less people and it was beautiful. We spent hours there swimming, jumping in from the high rocks and exploring.
That evening we pushed on to Mt Elizabeth. We did a station tour with a lunch stop at a beautiful water hole full of turtles below a waterfall and visited some amazing aboriginal art and burial sites. We saw great examples of Wandjina (up to 5000 years old) and Bradshaw (up to 20 000 years old) styles. Interestingly today’s indigenous people know nothing about the Bradshaw art and call them rubbish and have painted over many of them.
We also took a rough track to a fantastic gorge with a waterfall that we could climb in behind. It was a cave full of frogs. We had the place to ourselves and had a great time and swimming, fishing and jumping off rocks. We also stumbled across more artworks.
It was a decent walk into Manning Gorge including a river crossing in a tin boat on a pully system but that meant less people and it was beautiful. We spent hours there swimming, jumping in from the high rocks and exploring.
That evening we pushed on to Mt Elizabeth. We did a station tour with a lunch stop at a beautiful water hole full of turtles below a waterfall and visited some amazing aboriginal art and burial sites. We saw great examples of Wandjina (up to 5000 years old) and Bradshaw (up to 20 000 years old) styles. Interestingly today’s indigenous people know nothing about the Bradshaw art and call them rubbish and have painted over many of them.
We also took a rough track to a fantastic gorge with a waterfall that we could climb in behind. It was a cave full of frogs. We had the place to ourselves and had a great time and swimming, fishing and jumping off rocks. We also stumbled across more artworks.
Freya
Wandjina Art
Bell Gorge
Manning Gorge
Black Bream at Mt Elizabeth waterhole
Waterhole at Mt Elizabeth with Aboriginal art and Burial site
Behind Waterfall at Mt Elizabeth Gorge
Wandjina art
Wandjina art
Bradshaw style art
Bradshaw style art
Imogen's Jump at Manning Gorge
Freya's Leap!
Bradshaw art
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