Perth to Karijini & Millstream (Inland & Gorges)
Perth to Karijini and Millstream is the inland leg of our 21-day Pilbara and Coral Coast loop, but it works well as a standalone trip too. In eight days and 1,712 km (plus day trips), it puts you on some of the oldest rock on the planet within a couple of days of leaving home. You’ll discover the banded iron gorges of Karijini and the permanent spring-fed pools of Millstream Chichester. If you have never driven this far north, this is the leg that will blow you away.
The route uses the Great Northern Highway from Perth to Newman, then into Karijini via Banjima Drive before a short transit north-west to Millstream. Two heavy driving days get the distance out of the way early, followed by five days exploring Karijini’s eastern and western gorges, then a final two days at Millstream before the itinerary hands off to the Coral Coast in Part 2. The road is sealed for almost all of it. The only exceptions are the short unsealed spur into Kalamina Gorge and the access road to Hamersley Gorge, both manageable for an off-road or semi-off-road caravan at reduced tyre pressures.
This leg works whether you are doing the full loop or not. If you live in Perth and want a dedicated Karijini trip without committing three weeks to the coast, eight days there and a couple back is a satisfying standalone itinerary. It’s enough time to work through the gorges without rushing, and Millstream is a natural add-on rather than a detour. If you are planning the full loop, do this as Days 1 through 8. It is done while you are fresh and the rig is freshly serviced, before the trip turns coastal.
This page covers the leg in full: campgrounds, walk distances and road conditions. If you are weighing this leg against the rest of the loop, deciding how long to spend at Karijini, or deciding whether to follow the full 21 days or cut it back, the bigger picture is on our Pilbara and Coral Coast Loop hub page. That page also includes notes on lengthening or shortening the trip depending on where you are travelling from.
Assuming that you have the background information, let’s get straight into the itinerary.
Perth to Karijini & Millstream Map
To aid in your planning, we have carefully prepared a map of the route. Later in the article, there is an interactive map for more information (jump to interactive map).
The Itinerary at a Glance
- Day 1: Perth to Meekatharra.
- Day 2: Meekatharra to Karijini (Dales Gorge Campground).
- Day 3: Dales Gorge. Park day.
- Day 4: Dales Gorge to Karijini Eco Resort via Kalamina Gorge.
- Day 5: Karijini Eco Resort. Western Gorges.
- Day 6: Karijini Eco Resort. Western Gorges.
- Day 7: Karijini to Millstream Chichester National Park.
- Day 8: Millstream Chichester. Park day.
Day 1: Perth to Meekatharra
Breaking the Back of the Inland Push
The Drive
Perth to Meekatharra via the Great Northern Highway | 772 km | 8.5 hours
On the Road
This is the heaviest driving day of the trip, and it is heavy on purpose. Get it out of the way while you are still fresh, the rig is freshly serviced, and the focus is sharp. Leave Perth as early as possible to avoid the metropolitan traffic and to give yourself a buffer at the other end.
The Great Northern Highway runs north and a bit east from Perth through the Wheatbelt towns of New Norcia, Wubin and Paynes Find. New Norcia is the natural first coffee stop, about 90 minutes from Perth, and the old Benedictine monastery is worth a 10-minute walk around if you haven’t seen it before. Wubin marks the end of the Wheatbelt; north of here, the country shifts to mulga, and the towns get further apart.
Mt Magnet is at the 562 km mark. The town has fuel, an IGA and a decent bakery on Hepburn Street. From Mt Magnet, push on through Cue (one of the better-preserved goldfields towns in WA, worth a slow drive-through) and into Meekatharra by late afternoon.
The road is sealed bitumen the entire way, two-lane with reasonable shoulders. The main hazards are road trains, kangaroos at dawn and dusk, and the genuine fatigue that builds on a long single-day drive. Set the UHF to channel 40 and listen.
Rob’s Tip: Use Petrolspy, or something similar, to check where the cheapest fuel is. At the time of writing, the IOR on Robinson Street in Cue was cheaper than anything in Cue or Meekatharra. Clicking the Petrolspy link will display a centred map in the tool. Carry one spare jerry can from this point north; the gaps between fuel stops grow as you head into the Pilbara.
The Stay
The Meekatharra Accommodation Centre on Main Street is the practical choice for a one-night transit stop. Powered sites with hot showers and laundry are $35. Unpowered sites are $25 a night. The park is basic but clean, and it is within walking distance to the pub and the IGA for a quick resupply in the morning. Telstra coverage is reliable; Optus is patchy.
The free option is the highly rated Peace Gorge Camp, about 3.5 km north-west of town on the Peace Gorge Road. It is among granite tors. There are no facilities other than some picnic tables.
The Highlight
After today’s drive, the highlight is the stew on the table and the bed in the van. Tomorrow is the day the country starts to change.
Day 2: Meekatharra to Karijini (Dales Gorge Campground)
Into the Pilbara Proper
The Drive
Meekatharra to Dales Gorge Campground via the Great Northern Highway and Banjima Drive | 624 km | 7 hours
On the Road
Another long day, but the country starts to earn its keep. The Great Northern Highway runs north through Kumarina Roadhouse (fuel only, no overnight camping) and into Newman. Newman is your last chance for a proper supermarket resupply before Karijini; the Woolworths on Newman Drive is well-stocked, and there is a Cellerbrations nearby if you want to grab some beer for the park camps.
Refuel at Newman and fill the jerry cans. It will be the last fuel between here and Panawanica or Tom Price, You want a full tank for the next four days in the park. Top up the water tanks too; the Dales Campground has limited water, and you should arrive self-sufficient.
From Newman, continue north on the Great Northern Highway. We look forward to the drive north of Newman through the ranges, as it is stunning. Turn off onto Banjima Drive at is about 156 km north of Newman. The turn-off is well signposted. The entire stretch of Banjima Drive from the highway to the Dales Campground and the Visitor Centre is fully sealed.
Wildlife strikes are a real consideration throughout the Pilbara. Cattle wander onto the road through unfenced station country, and kangaroos work the verges at dusk. Plan to be at camp by 4 pm, which gives you a buffer for an unexpected fuel stop or a slow truck.
The Karijini Visitor Centre operates from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in the peak cooler months (with reduced hours or seasonal closures during summer). If you plan to buy an extended DBCA Holiday Pass over the counter, pick up detailed gorge maps, or get first hand track updates, time your arrival accordingly. While automated pay stations at the park’s main road entries accept card payments 24/7, they only issue single-day entry passes. If you do not have an extended park pass, buy a 4-week DBCA Holiday Pass online before leaving home, and remember that Dales Campground bookings must be arranged online in advance via Park Stay WA.
There is Telstra and Optus coverage at the visitor centre.
The Stay
Dales Campground: 2 nights.
A DBCA-managed national park camp with 153 sites spread across several loops. Sites are generous, well-spaced and mostly level on red dirt. The camp has flushing toilets (a luxury for a national park), but no showers and limited water. The cost is $15 per adult per night. You must book online, and in peak season (June to August) you should book well in advance. Generators are permitted only in designated loops, with strict hours (9 am to 8 pm).
There is also a seasonal over-flow campground near the visitor centre.
Pets are not permitted in the national park. Telstra coverage is non-existent at the campground; Optus has coverage.
Note on Optus coverage: during our last visit the service stopped soon after sunset. We put this down to dead batteries. Other people have reported similar experiences.
The Highlight
A short walk to the Fortescue Falls lookout before sunset to see what you have driven here for. The gorge drops 100 m straight down from the lookout, with Fortescue Falls visible below. Tomorrow you are going down into it.
Day 3: Dales Gorge
Fortescue Falls, Fern Pool and the Three Ways
The Drive
No driving today. Everything is within walking distance of the campground or the lookout car park.
On the Road
Keep the rig at Dales.
The Stay
Second night at Dales Campground.
The Highlight
The Dales Gorge walk is the most accessible of the major Karijini gorge experiences and one of the most rewarding. The track is graded Class 4. From the campground, walk to the Circular Pool Lookout and then onto the Three Ways Lookout and take the climb down to Dales Gorge Trail at the bottom of the gorge. Continue to Fortescue Falls, then Fern Pool for a swim. When you are ready, backtrack to below Fortescue Falls and climb out to take the Gorge Rim Trail back to the campground.
Safety Warning: Watch the gorge walls and exposed rock as you walk. On our last trip, we spotted a seam of natural blue asbestos (crocidolite) exposed near the path. It’s a fascinating reminder of the Pilbara’s raw geology and mining history. Undisturbed rock poses no danger, but standard outback protocol applies: admire it from a step back, don’t scrape, lick or kick the fibres. Leave it entirely untouched.
Fortescue Falls is the only permanent waterfall in Karijini, stepping down over layered banded iron formation that is roughly 2.5 billion years old. The deep, cool pool at its base is framed by paperbarks and open year-round for swimming. Fern Pool, a further 300 to 400 m upstream, is the true gem of the park: a tranquil, spring-fed pool fringed with maidenhair ferns (see opening photo). The site holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for the Banjima people, so visitors are asked to enter the water gently and respectfully, and to refrain from jumping or loud splashing.
Allow four hours for the full circuit if you swim. Take 3 L of water per person, a hat and reef-safe sunscreen. The climb back out will get the heart rate up; do it in the morning if possible.
Rob’s Tip: With the sealing of the road between Dales Gorge and the Eco Resort it is possible to use Dales as a base and day trip to the other gorges. It is a 90 km return trip. You will need to consider your fuel range.
Day 4: Dales Gorge to Karijini Eco Resort
Transit and the One Unsealed Spur
The Drive
Dales Campground to Karijini Eco Resort via Banjima Drive and the Kalamina Rd | 57 km | 1 hour plus exploring time
On the Road
A short transit day designed to give you time at Kalamina Gorge on the way through. Head west on Banjima Drive from Dales. The road is fully sealed bitumen, smooth and easy. About 28.6 km along turn onto Kalamina Road. This 6 km spur is unsealed and corrugated, and it is the one section of the standard Karijini circuit that will rattle a caravan.
You have two practical options. The first is to take the van in. There is a large turning circle and plenty of space at the end of the road. The second is to skip Kalamina, continue west to the Eco Resort and come back without the van.
The Kalamina Gorge walk is a 3 km return Class 4 track down to a permanent pool at the base of a low waterfall. Allow two hours, including a swim. The gorge floor is shaded by river red gums, and the rock pools support freshwater shrimp and Stygofauna in the deeper sections.
After Kalamina, continue west on Banjima Drive to the Eco Resort turn-off.
The Stay
Karijini Eco Resort: 3 nights.
A privately operated, Advanced Ecotourism-certified retreat offering 64 unpowered campsites suitable for tents, campervans and caravans. The retreat operates on a hybrid solar-and-generator eco-grid, which means there are absolutely no powered sites, no concrete pads and no guest laundry facilities. Sites are natural gravel and bush clearings. Guests must arrive fully self-sufficient for power and water; there are no individual power or water hookups for rigs, although generators are permitted to run between 2 pm and 4 pm daily. Camping fees are $50 per night. Booking online well in advance is essential for the peak season (June to August), as the retreat regularly fills up months in advance.
The advantage of the Eco Retreat over Dales is not power but the excellent communal amenities: flushing toilets, solar-hot showers, undercover bush kitchens and a fully licensed outback restaurant and bar for a night off the camp stove. The disadvantage is the higher cost for an unpowered stay compared to the national park camps. Most savvy travellers split their Karijini stay: two nights at Dales to easily explore the eastern gorges and three nights at the Eco Retreat to tackle the western gorges right from their doorstep.
Telstra and Optus have coverage here. The restaurant takes cards, and the bar opens at 4 pm.
The Highlight
Kalamina Gorge in the late afternoon when the western light hits the eastern wall. You will have it largely to yourself.
Day 5: Karijini Eco Resort
The Spider Walk, Kermit’s Pool, Handrail Pool and Oxer Lookout
The Drive
No driving today beyond the short hop to the Weano Day Use Area car park. The full access road to the Weano Day Use Area is sealed bitumen.
On the Road
Keep the rig at the Eco Retreat.
The Stay
Second night at the Karijini Eco Retreat.
The Highlight
The Weano Day Use Area is the launching point for two of the most spectacular gorge walks in Australia: Hancock Gorge and Weano Gorge. Both start from the same car park, and both can be done in a single big day if you start early.
Hancock Gorge is a morning walk. The track starts with a steep metal ladder descent into the gorge. It drops you into a narrow slot canyon and ends at Kermit’s Pool, named for the water’s green colour. The middle section includes the famous Spider Walk: a 30 m section where the gorge narrows to a metre wide. You have to brace your hands and feet on opposite canyon walls to traverse a slippery, shallow watercourse. The track is graded Class 5, and the Spider Walk is closed in wet conditions when the rock becomes too slick to grip.
This is not a walk for the nervous, the unfit or anyone uncomfortable with heights and tight spaces. It is also one of the most memorable two hours you will spend in the Pilbara. Kermit’s Pool is a deep emerald basin at the head of the gorge, fed by a low waterfall, and the rock formations are 2.5 billion years old. You can swim at Kermit’s; the water is cold and clear.
Allow three to four hours return from the car park. Take grippy shoes (proper hiking sandals or trail runners with good tread; thongs and reef shoes will not work on the Spider Walk), 3 L of water and a small dry bag for a phone or camera. The Spider Walk gets your shoes and shorts wet, so plan for that.
Weano Gorge and Handrail Pool is the afternoon walk and the second half of the Day 5 experience. The walk starts from the same Weano Day Use Area car park as Hancock and drops into a wide upper gorge before narrowing into a slot canyon at the lower end. The track is graded Class 5 with a steep descent, some scrambling on loose rock and a wade through ankle- to chest-deep water.
Handrail Pool is the destination, and the name tells you exactly what to expect. The final descent to the pool is down a smooth, sloping rock face with a metal handrail bolted into the wall. You hold the handrail and lower yourself the last 3 m into the pool, which is a deep, dark, sheer-walled basin at the head of the gorge. The handrail is the only way down and the only way back up; once you are in the pool, the rock walls are vertical on all sides. It is one of the more photographed spots in WA, and the geology is genuinely arresting: the gorge walls are so close together at the top that the light filters down through a narrow slot, turning the water emerald green.
Allow two to three hours return. Take swimmers, grippy shoes and a dry bag. The handrail descent looks worse than it is, but if you are not confident on the wet rock, you can sit on the edge and watch the gorge from above.
Oxer Lookout, is the panoramic finale (but you can do it at any point in the day). The lookout is at the junction of four gorges (Hancock, Weano, Joffre and Red) and the drop to the gorge floor is 100 m straight down. Sunset from Oxer is the photograph everyone takes home from Karijini. The lookout is fully accessible from the car park.
Safety Warning: Karijini Gorge Hazards & Remote Rescue Realities
The Karijini gorges are visually spectacular, but they are genuinely dangerous environments. You are negotiating polished, water-worn banded iron formation, sheer 100-metre vertical drop-offs, loose scree descents, and narrow slot canyons where footing can disappear beneath murky water without notice. Serious falls, hypothermia in deep shadowed pools, and flash flooding are real, recurring incidents here every season.
The takeaways are blunt: Your personal safety is entirely your own responsibility. Wear proper footwear with aggressive grip (hiking sandals or trail runners—never thongs or flimsy water shoes on the Spider Walk or Handrail Pool descent), never enter Class 5 trails late in the afternoon, and turn back immediately if a traverse exceeds your fitness, balance, or confidence.
Day 6: Karijini Eco Resort
Knox and Joffre Gorges
The Drive
No driving beyond the short hop to the car parks. The road is sealed.
On the Road
Keep the rig at the Eco Resort.
The Stay
Third night at the Karijini Eco Resort.
The Highlight
The second western gorges day.
Knox Gorge Lookout has had some recent upgrades. The old, rough foot trail has been replaced with an accessible path that leads to a new steel platform hanging over the rim. You look straight down a sheer 100-metre drop into the shadowed chasm where Knox slices through to meet Red Gorge.
Knox Gorge is a half-day walk, a 2 km return Class 5 track that drops 100 m into a wide gorge with a permanent stream at the bottom. The descent is steep and slippery in places, with sections of scrambling on loose rock. The reward is a long walk along the gorge floor between near-vertical walls of banded iron formation, with pools deep enough to swim and few walkers once you are past the descent. Allow three hours and take swimmers.
Joffre Gorge is a short walk, a 200 m descent from the lookout to a curved natural amphitheatre with a seasonal waterfall at the head. The waterfall flows reliably in winter and dries up by November. The amphitheatre, even without water, is a striking piece of geology: a near-perfect semicircle of layered red rock about 80 m high. The track is Class 4, and the climb back out is manageable in 20 minutes. The Eco Resort is a 1 km walk from the Joffre lookout, so you can walk to and from camp if you want a rest day from driving.
Rob’s Tip: Do Knox in the morning, Joffre after lunch. Consider walking to Joffre from the campground.
A Note on the Rock
The banded iron formations you walk through at Karijini are 2.5 billion years old, and they likely exist because of a process that is happening in Shark Bay today. The alternating red and grey bands in the gorge walls are layers of iron oxide and silica laid down on the floor of an ancient ocean during the Great Oxidation Event, when the Earth’s atmosphere first acquired free oxygen. The oxygen came from photosynthetic cyanobacteria living in shallow coastal waters: the same organisms that still form the stromatolites at Hamelin Pool today.
As the cyanobacteria pumped oxygen into the seawater, dissolved iron became insoluble and precipitated as iron oxide to on the seabed in thin layers. The oxygen was ironically toxic to the cyanobacteria, so the process was turned on and off. Repeat the process over hundreds of millions of years, and you get the iron-rich sedimentary rock that built the Pilbara, fed the Rio Tinto mines and now lines the walls of Dales, Hancock, Weano and Joffre Gorges. Every red band you see is, in a real sense, a fossil record of early life breathing.
Each layer is estimated to have taken between 55 and 1,000 years to accumulate. The silica-rich layers (light-coloured layers) accumulated very slowly.
Day 7: Karijini to Millstream Chichester National Park
Hamersley Gorge and the Run North
The Drive
Karijini Eco Retreat to Millstream Chichester National Park via Nanutarra-Munjina Road and Roebourne-Wittenoom Road | 259 km | 4 hours plus exploring time at Hamersley Gorge
On the Road
Those not wishing to tackle the more remote sections of this trip may continue on Karijini Drive, eventually into Tom Price for fuel, then on to Nanutarra, where you rejoin this itinerary on day 9 of the Coral Coast leg, saving 2 days. The drive on the Nanutarra-Munjina Road is ruggedly beautiful.
Head south from the Eco Retreat on Banjima Drive to the Karijini Drive junction. A short distance takes you onto Hamersley-Mt Bruce Road. After 30 km take Nanutarra-Munjina Road north. The turnoff to Hamersley Gorge is a further 21 km.
The first 31 km of the route is sealed, then mostly unsealed once you turn off Karijini Drive.
Hamersley Gorge is the most under-visited of the major Karijini gorges and one of the most photogenic. The car park is 86 km from the Eco Retreat, signposted off Nanutarra-Munjina Road, and the access spur is a short unsealed run that is fine in any vehicle if you take it slowly.
The gorge is a 200 m walk and a short descent down a metal stairway from the car park, ending at a series of folded and twisted rock walls that look like geological origami. The folding resulted from tectonic pressure on the banded iron formation about 2 billion years ago, and the walls are among the best examples of plastic deformation in BIF you will see anywhere. The swimming pool at the base is deep and shaded.
The Instagram-famous Spa Pool is a 200 m upstream scramble and a small natural rock spa fed by a low waterfall. Allow two hours, including a swim. For those who want to spend more time, a free camp is on the opposite side of the road from the turn-off.
Back on Nanutarra-Munjina Road, continue north another 22 km to the Roebourne-Wittenoom Road junction and turn north. This eventually becomes the Red Dog Highway. The turnoff to Millstream (Millstream-Pannawonica Rd) is 134 km from the intersection.
Rob’s Tip: The Roebourne-Wittenoom Road carries heavy road-train traffic from the iron ore operations. If you see dust on the horizon ahead, pull right off the road and stop. A loaded triple road train at 100 km/h does not give way and the wind shock can move a caravan a metre sideways. Listen on UHF channel 40 for road train movements.
The Stay
Miliyanha Campground or Stargazers Campground in Millstream Chichester National Park: 2 nights.
Miliyanha is the larger of the two, with around 40 sites on red dirt, pit toilets and no water. The cost is $15 per adult per night. You must book and pay online. Stargazers is smaller, 12 sites with the same facilities, and is better for self-contained rigs wanting more privacy (book now).
Pets are not permitted. Optus has coverage, but Telstra does not.
The Highlight
Hamersley Gorge is the day’s reward and arguably the most striking single piece of geology in Karijini. The folded BIF walls are spectacular, the swimming is excellent and you will often have the place to yourself because most park visitors never make it this far west.
Day 8: Millstream Chichester National Park
Millstream Visitor Centre, Deep Reach Pool and Python Pool
The Drive
Short hops within the park, all on graded gravel internal roads. Take the tow vehicle.
On the Road
Local driving only.
The Stay
Second night at Miliyanha or Stargazers.
The Highlight
Millstream Chichester is two parks in one. The Millstream section in the south is a permanent freshwater oasis on the Fortescue River, fed by a deep underground aquifer. The Chichester section in the north is a dry, escarpment-and-plains landscape with the dramatic Python Pool at its base. Both deserve a half-day.
Start at the Millstream Visitor Centre, housed in the original 1920s Millstream Station homestead and modernised with a solar-powered information centre. The displays cover the Yindjibarndi cultural significance of the river system, the pastoral history of the station and the geology of the aquifer that feeds the permanent pools. The homestead gardens are still tended and the date palms planted by the original owners are productive in autumn.
Deep Reach Pool, a 4 km drive from the Visitor Centre, is the swimming pool of the park. Deep, permanent water under paperbark canopy, with a couple of picnic tables and a small day-use area. The water is cool year-round (the aquifer keeps it at a constant 20 °C) and the pool is fed by springs from the Fortescue floor. Allow 90 minutes and take swimmers.
In the afternoon, drive the 50 km north to Python Pool at the base of the Chichester escarpment. The pool is a deep, dark waterhole at the bottom of a 50 m high red cliff, fed by seasonal runoff from the range. Even in the dry season, the pool holds water year-round, although the level drops by late spring. The contrast of the dark red rock, the still black water and the green fringe of vegetation around the edge is one of the more photogenic scenes in the Pilbara. Allow two hours including a swim and the short walk along the base of the escarpment.
The Mt Herbert Lookout, 5 km from Python Pool, gives you the panoramic view of the Chichester Range and the Fortescue floodplain stretching south. A short 500 m return walk from the car park.
Rob’s Tip: For Python Pool take everything you need for the afternoon, including a change of clothes if you swim. The walk in from the car park is short (300 m) and shaded by river red gums.
Heading Back to Perth From Here?
If Millstream is as far as you are going and you need to hightail it back to Perth, the default tarmac route is to head out to the North West Coastal Highway and burn south. But if you have an off-road setup capable of tackling hundreds of kilometres of remote outback gravel, there is a far more adventurous alternative.
For an upcoming trip, we will be returning to Perth from the north. Having driven the standard coastal and inland highways multiple times, we looked for a proper back-country track. We’ve confirmed the route is viable, though we haven’t field-tested every kilometre of it yet, so treat this as an idea to explore and do your own homework on conditions before heading out.
From Millstream, head south toward Tom Price and out along the Nanutarra-Munjina Road. Turn south onto the unsealed Ashburton Downs Road, picking up Pingandy Road to cut through the station country to Mount Augustus (Burringurrah). From Mount Augustus, head south along the Cobra–Dairy Creek Road until you meet the legendary Carnarvon–Mullewa Road, turn south toward Mullewa. From there, it is an easy sealed run home through Three Springs and Moora before rejoining the Great Northern Highway into Perth.
It cuts straight through the remote heart of the Gascoyne and Upper Gascoyne pastoral stations. If you take it on, you need serious remote-travel preparation: broad fuel ranges, ample drinking water, a quality tyre repair kit, and up-to-date shire road condition reports after any rain.
Interactive Pilbara and Coral Coast Map
Below is your free interactive map. On the map are the campground locations, points of interest, starting points for walks, and fuel locations. Click on the campgrounds for information on them. Zoom in to see more details.
If you jumped here from earlier in the article, you can jump back to the same spot: Take me back to the static map.
Wrapping Up
Eight days in, you have covered 1,712 km, crossed from the Wheatbelt into the red heart of the Pilbara. You have swum in pools surrounded by ancient rocks. This leg contains the hardest distances of the loop.
What you take from this leg is not just distance covered. It is the Spider Walk and Handrail Pool at Karijini, the folded rock at Hamersley Gorge, and Python Pool sitting under the Chichester escarpment, all inside country that is measured in billions of years rather than centuries. Few trips in Australia put that much genuinely ancient landscape within reach of a caravan in under two weeks.
From here, the pace changes completely. The next leg trades gorges for reef, red dirt for turquoise water, and a demanding schedule for one of the most relaxed stretches of coast in the country. If you are following the full loop, Part 2: The Coral Coast Itinerary picks up where this leg ends. From here, you head to Exmouth. If this is as far as your trip goes, you have already done the hardest part and earned every kilometre of it.
