Carr-Boyd Ranges

Day 3

Alan heading along the dry creek

Caro and Alan in light scrub near the creek

Paul climbs the ridge to the watershed

Rachel looking into our next creek (which I since dubbed Karijini Creek)

Rock bands in the side creeks

Algae and water flowers

Rachel and Sheila in the long grass and pandanus

Paul crossing the creek

Pool and creekside vegetation

Pandanus leaves

Rachel and Alan at Three Falls Camp, one of the best campsites of the trip, with a deep pool surrounded by three small waterfalls

Three Falls Camp

Looking down on the camp from on high

Yeehaa!

Sheila, Rachel, Caro and Paul around the fire

Tom and Rachel

Day 4

Caro having another snooze ... or maybe photographing a cane toad?

Rocky slabs

Alan exploring a side gorge

Rachel at our morning tea swimming hole

Looking downstream to where the real interest starts

Wowsers! Caro and Rachel check out the waterfall and impending swim!

Caro climbing down the waterfall

Preparing for a swim

Sheila floating her pack across

Paul (well, Paul's pack)

Beautiful rock slab walking below the pool

Caro and Rachel, following another swim, with more to come

Sheila in the now deep and narrow gorge, almost a canyon

In the gorge

Caro and Rachel wading a shallower pool

Caro finishing a deeper wade

Rachel

Sheila and Paul

This one's more than a wade!

Caro in the gorge

Unfortunately there are also cane toads in the gorge

Rachel ready to explore a side creek (well, side canyon by the looks of it)

Rachel checking out whether she can keep dry feet

Caro checking out the pool from the other side

Rachel

Alan

Rachel and Caro scrambling

A dry side canyon, which Alan explores...

...while Rachel and I go swimming up the main canyon

Rachel emerging from a pool

The swim through unpleasant green water disappears around the corner

After emerging in a very dark bat chamber (no photos), surrounded by hundreds of bats, we manage to assist each other up a slippery chute and along a corridor to this chamber.

Another slippery slide to get up

Heading back

Rachel in the pool

Looking down the corridor towards the bat chamber

The narrow slot out of the bat chamber

Alan and Caro keeping feet dry

Rachel and Caro

Rachel in the canyon

Alan slips into the back of the photo of Rachel!

Back at camp, on pebbly banks