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For sheer photographic opportunites, nothing beat Knox Gorge on our trip through Western Australia. The light was just right and the vistas spectacular.
Where you enter the gorge is down a steep path. At the bottom 99% of hikers turned left. Naturally enough, we went right. Hey, it's just what I do!
Truth is, I was after a particular tree that I'd spotted from above the night before and I was determined to get at least one snap of it. In the end, Bob and I must have taken over 100 shots of the tree, so picturesque was it.
The walk took us around 5 hours and, at times, we had to scale some difficult terrain but luckily without incident. We didn't return down the gorge but instead took another route out after about 4 hours and walked up through the lawn of the apocolypse (spinifex) to reach the top which is where I took one of my all time favourite shots (pic 5) though it's fairly typical of the terrain there.
We overheard a ranger saying, "Some people say this is the prettiest gorge of them all", before we departed and I, for one, can't disagree with that.
Written Nov 29, 2008
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Joffre and Knox Gorge are near each other and eventually intersect when you are doing the walk along the canyons.
Up the top where I took these photos (and again, you need to see them all to get some perspective) you gaze down into a weird and wonderful world of layered iron oxide dating back to a time when life as we know it never existed. This is some of the oldest rock in the world.
The falls are dramatic and, next time I go I may venture to the bottom but even spending over an hour at the top is so rewarding.
They're situated about 20 kilometres drive from Oxer Lookout.
Written Nov 27, 2008
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This is a place for the adventurous. Here the grade goes from 5 to 6 and rightly so.
Those unsure on their feet will not venture here and even some of those who are will not, myself numbered among them. As I don't go anywhere without my camera I judged the risk too great of getting my camera immersed so I held back and photographed while others took the risk.
Even the young and fit said it was scary and it eventually winds up in Kermit's Pool where you have to slide down to get in.
Spider Walk runs off the side of the Amphitheatre in Hancock Gorge.
It's worth looking at all the photos here.
Written Nov 27, 2008
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Hancock is one of the gorges that intersects at Oxer Lookout. The access, by Karijini standards, is relatively easy. There's a steep path that eventually terminates when you come to a ladder and then descend the last 20 or so rungs to the floor.
From here it's down the narrow canyon surrounded by rust red, spinifex and ghost gums. When the sunlight plays upon the surface it can be spectacular (pic 3) but very difficult to photograph.
As shown in pic 2 it's a grade 5 walk, any more and it's really difficult which is what you encounter when you reach the amphitheatre (pic 4 & 5) and want to go beyond.
Written Nov 22, 2008
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Like most places in W.A., it's a long way between stops. Here you talk in hundreds of kilometres between civilization.
On the way what you will notice is red stained soil.......lots and lots of red stained soil. Here and there you might notice a band a quartz sticking up through the rust coloured landscape or and occasional pristine white gum tree begging for you to take its picture; but there's not a lot else; well, except spinifex that is.
The lawn of the apocolypse is everywhere. The harshness of the plant seems fitting in this harshest of landscapes.
Occasionally you might see some animal, like the goanna stalking in pic 4, but generally speaking wildlife is few and far between.
Written Aug 30, 2008
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