Walking Bell Gorge

Today we passed through more Gibb River Road. After finding out that two of the Bump Stoppers and some of the back shock absorbers had died on the Kalumburu Road we got away from Manning Gorge Camp. We drove to the Mt Barnett Roadhouse to get fuel and some groceries. Diesel was expensive, at 199.5 cents per litre. After trying to get the pay phone at the Roadhouse to work and failing, we started driving again.

At the Imintji Store we bought two onions and a book with photos of the Gibb River and Kalumburu Roads. As you might be able to see from the picture above, they like their AFL up here. Diesel here was “The Cheapest Diesel On The Gibb River Road,” at 194.5 cents per litre. Whether or not that was true, all the the Diesel on the Gibb River Road is very expensive.

After driving for about 50 kms, we came to Bell Gorge carpark. From there we went on the 2km return walk to the cascades. Izzy and Elliot had a lot of fun counting “dots” on the way there. The pool was a nice temperature for cooling off in without getting too cold. I swam over to an overhang where there was a shallow area, then over to the cascades and back. Izzy and Dad went to a deeper pool downstream, but I didn’t go because I was out for a bit at the time. After an hour’s swim we got out and walked to the top of the cascades, where we had another short swim ( about 100m away from them, though).

  Louis