Karinjini

- the gorge(ous) place

After two days driving through desert we finally made it to Karinjini. It’s title of oasis in the desert is more that well deserved. Even in winter the days are hot and there is nothing but hot red sand everywhere you look. Except for Karinjini gorges that is. Even in summer there you can find waterfalls, green forest and pools to dive in to cool down. When studying the brochure we couldn’t help but wonder – 3km with estimated 3 hours time to make it? huh? What do you do, crawl? Well, not exactly but close. As we realized in Grampians earlier, walking can mean scrambling over rocks, even climbing. Here it is wading through anything between little streams and neck deep water. The Dales Gorge is no problem, nice walk with pools to stop at for a swim. The Weanu Gorge is a different story. Now there you take your shoes off about 300m into the walk and it’s not worth putting them on until you get out again as you are in some sort of water most of the time. Sometimes just up to your ankles, sometimes waist deep, if you make a wrong step even neck deep. It’s really amazing, you make your way through pools and passes and you feel like an adventurer discovering new world. It is an incredible place. The only minus would be that now everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is our van is red. The dust just gets everywhere and there is nothing you can do. But even though some of our clothes will never be it’s original colour again, it was worth it. 

Po dvou dnech jizdy pre spoust jsme konecne dorazili do narodniho parku Karinjini. Karinjini je prezdivana “oazou v pousti” a musim uznat, ze je to titul velmi vystizny. Nebot ackoliv kam se clovek podiva je jen cerveny pisek a i v zime je tu vedro, v Karinjini clovek najde vodopady, zelene lesiky a jezirka ke koupani.

Kdyz jsme koukali do brozuky, moc jsme nechapali, proc u 3km treku je uvedena doba chuze 3 hodiny. No ale jak se ukazalo, “chuze” je velmi siroky pojem. V Grampians to znamenalo cokoliv od chuze, pres skrabani se pres sutry az po vicemene lezeni. Tady to zas muze byt cokoliv od chuze pres brouzdani se vodou po kotniky az po brodeni se vodou po krk. Prvni trek nebyl problem – prijemna prochazka se zastavkama na koupani. Druhy a treti trek jsme uz boty sundaval po asi 300 metrech a obuli je zas az u auta. vtsinu casu sjme totiz travili ve vode, nekdy po kotniky, jindy po krk. Oblast je to opravdu uzasna, kdyz se clovek brodi mezi tema skalama, tak ma pocit, ze je prvnim prukopnikem, ktery se sem probojoval. Neustale jsme zasli, jak je to tady krasny. Akorat jedno minus to teda ma – ted mame vsechno cerveny. Auto zvenci i zevnitr – cerveny. Ten cervenej prach se dostane uplne vsude. Ale ackoliv nekolik kusu obleceni se asi uz nikdy nenavrati do sve puvodni barvy, stalo to za to.

  Behind us you can get only with abseiling equipment / Za nas se da dostat jen se slanovaci vybavou.