Windjana Gorge & Tunnel Creek

Big day of driving today with a 370km round trip (half on gravel) to Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek along the Gibb River Rd for a bit and then the Fairfield/Leopold Rd.  Windjana was pretty and abundant with freshies, one 20m section had at least one freshy per metre! One of us also inspected other wildlife on the walk with olive pythons and fruit bats.

Windjana Gorge Entrance

Windjana Gorge Freshies Galore

Windjana Gorge Freshie

Windjana Gorge pano

Windjana Gorge pano

Windjana Gorge Bat

Windjana Gorge Green Tree Python

Drove on to Tunnel Creek, where at the start you climb over some bolders into the darkness of the 'tunnel'/cave. Then you get to wade several times in pitch dark through above knee cold water. Made a change for the dusty 36 degree heat! Interesting tunnel, with one collapsed giving us brief daylight. It apparently has 5 species of bats in there, we saw some but our torches weren't strong enough to see the roof in some parts.

Tunnel Creek Entrance

Tunnel Creek collapsed mid-section

Tunnel Creek collapsed mid-section

Tunnel Creek light at the end of the tunnel

Tunnel Creek Alison abandoned yet again

We are sure they have a proper scientific name, but when we started seeing these below termite mounds a few days ago, the soil colours were brown, so we gave them our own name.

Local "turdmite" mound