Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek

30th July

Day 225

We spent the morning exploring the 360 million year old Devonian reef, amazed at the aquatic fossils embeddded in the rocks. The rocks surrounding us were once the sea floor.

There were alot of freshies hanging around in the water or sunning themselves on the sandbank.

In the afternoon we headed to Tunnel Creek to negotiate a river running through a cave. We headed into pitch blackness with our torches and were prepared to get wet. At some points we were wading through water waist deep for us, chest deep for Blake and Amber and over the head for the three little ones. Eamon and Darcy were piggybacked and I swung James with my free arm through the deep bits. It would have been pretty funny to see, lucky we were in the dark. It was a limestone cave and had incredible staligtites and staligmites. There were also lots of bats in there that we could see in the light patch where the cave had caved in along time ago.

Staligtite at Tunnel Creek


Entering Tunnel Creek

A break of light in Tunnel Creek

A friendly freshie at Windjana Gorge

The magnitude of Windjana Gorge