Karijini Gorges

Monday 15th June
Today we went to see a few more Gorges, although after the first climb down into Weano Gorge, a ramble along the bottom and a climb back up, my legs let me know that I'm not nearly fit enough for two consecutive Gorging days. I think my level of fitness is more suited to fishing.
For the remaining Gorges, Joffrey Falls and Knox, we only walked as far as the lookout and admired the landscape from above which still provided a great view but without straining those leg muscles.
The landscape in this area is very impressive and the gorges are something to behold. To explore this area to its full extent one would need a week or two and a much better level of fitness.
The trails through the gorges are graded from class 2 to class 5 according to terrain and trail marking. There is another "Danger" class which requires an approved guide plus rock climbing and abseiling skills. Looking from 300 feet above down onto a "Danger" class trail (if you can call it a trail) I can only begin to imagine how difficult it would be to work the way along the bottom of those gorges.
I have heard the expression "Bull Dust" before and various people have told me about it, but today we experienced the red, superfine, sticky and powdery substance for ourselves as we travelled 100km on dirt track. It really does penetrate the smallest of cracks and I could not keep it out of the car. By the time we got back tonight we had this red stuff outside as well as inside the car, on our cloth, shoes, cameras and everywhere else you can think of.
I'm not known for keeping my car clean, but when we came back to day we spent an hour getting rid of the worst of it - this was the first was this car has had and it's now 10 000km old.
Yesterday and today were very windy with a strong Easterly blowing all day and night. You can just imagine, here in the flat country, on the edge of the ranges, how this wind blows the red dust around and covers everything in it. Even the vegetation on the downwind side of the dusty roads is covered in red.
Tomorrow we will travel north again, probably for a couple of days, then stop at Barnhill Station before a longer break in Broome.