At The Farm: Trephina Gorge Camping

Next morning we woke up early and explored the John Hayes rock hole which was about 100 metres from our campsite. There was a little swim involved, with little swimwear. The water was a nice temperature, and we swam over to the other side of the gorge without any fish bites on the naughty bits.

We decided after this to do the Chain of Ponds walk whilst it was still cool and then pack up our camp and move on to the Bluffs campsite near the actual Trephina Gorge.

The chain of ponds walk is an amazingly beautiful walk that takes you up and over some ridges through dry rocky land so that you can enter a gorge system and walk through the gorge back down to the rock hole. Once we got into the gorge the scenery changed and we were surrounded by high rocky walls peppered with caves and ghost gums growing straight out of the rock. The large amounts of rain had filled lots of the ponds and the water was running through the gorge, though mostly only in small amounts.

As we travelled along the gorge the amount of water increased and the ponds grew larger until we started coming to small lakes that were quite deep and inviting in the already warm day.

We eventually had to climb the cliffs to get past a few large ponds and even started to come across waterfalls.

The final part of the gorge became so full of water and our track disappeared and we had to climb up out of the gorge via a wallaby track and walk over the ridges and through the very sharp spinifex back down to the rock hole and our campsite.

Young Ghost gum growing straight out of the rocks

The gorge behind Corinne, we walked back to the camp on the other side of the forge on the way back.

Corinne in front of a cave. We looked into this cave and were unpleasantly surprised by a black footed rock wallaby that darted past and nearly ruptured our hearts from the fright.