Carnarvon Gorge - Day 156, 11/09/2016

This morning we packed our hiking back packs with our food for the day and filled our water bladders up and set off from camp just after breakfast. The weather this morning was much better and the cloud was quickly burning off to reveal a nice day for walking. Today we walked the main Carnarvon Gorge up to the Art Gallery which is a very large aboriginal stencil and engraving site, there is lots of information here which was great to help explain it all to the kids. I thought it was best to leave it to Anna to explain to the girls what the Vulva engravings of fertility meant...

We left the Art Gallery and returned back down the main gorge track and found a nice little spot on the creek to have our lunch. From here we made it to the Amphitheater which was sensational and the girls entertained the other walkers by singing, the acoustics were great and I was very proud of them for having the courage to sing in front of a crowd.

We back tracked along the main track until we got to the Moss Garden which was another spectacular spot, rather than try and describe it I'll let Anna's photos do it justice.  We then returned to the car park after a big days walking, all up it was 14km's and the girls smashed it with out complaining. We thoroughly enjoyed the walks and our time in Carnarvon Gorge we would recommend it to everyone and we are certainly looking forward to coming back one day to complete the other walks.

Distance Traveled = 9 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 38,665 km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 288





































































































































































































































































































































































































































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