to the visitors centre come council office at Marble Bar to get some advice about roads etc. For a variety of reasons a last minute decision was made to give e Carawine Gorge the flick and take on a road which was 150km of gravel through what was described as a beautiful part of the country. And beautiful it was, dry but beautiful. Something we have come to a conclusion about is that these big mining companies dont give a stuff about anything but getting iron ore or whatever it is on to a ship to China and converting it to millions of dollars. Anywhere they are working the roads are shit and they don't do anything to maintain them. We cruised over what was a very good 8 out of 10 gravel road until we hit the last 10km and you got it the mining companies are building a railway line and have torn the last ten kms of road to shreds. About a km in we seriously considered turning around and going back to Marble Bar and coming around on the bitumen it the shook the shit out of everything, eggs n those egg protectors smashed and went everywhere. We finally hit the Great Northern Highweay 100km north of Auski Roadhouse . Uneventful trip to the Karijini national park outskirts where we camped in a huge rest area Albert Tongilini overlooking a huge gorge, the road has been built through the middle if it. 26/9/2012 Up and on