the road by 7am and off to Dales Gorge Camping Ground in Karijini. Had a lazy day went for a walk to Fortescue Falls and the swimming holes in Dales Gorge and then in the afternoon checked out the Visitors centre which has a brilliant historical representation of the area, whihc was ostensibly sheep country then cattle and finally you got it Iron Ore. Now this is interesting, I am far from being a Greenie and I think that they way they do National Parks in NSW is bloody awful but here in WA they had me right in until I heard the story of a mine out near Tom Price . The WA Government at some stage decided that Karijini was such a spectacularly beautiful place it needed preserving, so they made it a National Park to their credit. Then along came multi national company Rio Tinto, " we can mine Iron Ore in your National Park?" ' Of course you can we will excise the land you need out of the National Park". MMMM 27/9/2012 We decided today was going to be a trip to Hammersley Gorge. about 100km or so from the campsite. We were advised not to take the gravel shortcut as there was two foot of water acrocss the road. We took it anyway as it saved another 100k of travel. The water was only about 8 inches deep and easily traversed. the drive up was interesting the landscape out here is like you might