Today we got up and got dressed and went on a walk through Windjana Gorge where we were staying. There was unenclosed fresh water crocodiles really close. We drove 150 reallyyyyy long kilometres because we could only go 50 ks an hour because of how bumpy it was. When we got to Imintji we went for a long walk down to the Bell Gorge water fall. When we got back it was five o’clock and we had sausages on the barbeque for dinner and played till bed time.

Editor’s Note: Although Windjana Gorge itself was nothing spectacular compared to some of the more amazing gorges we have explored on this trip, the geology of this region is fascinating and the fossils that could be seen near the entrance to the gorge were a highlight. The cliffs here are the remains of a reef from the Devonian period around 360 million years ago. The reef developed over 50 million years and was approximately 2km in depth. Tectonic plate movements ultimately caused the sea floor to be shifted and the water receded. Sedimentation occured, filling the gaps between the reefs and fossilising Australia’s megafauna until more recently (geologically speaking) erosion of these softer sediments left the reefs and fossils exposed once more. The megafauna fossils from the recent time periods have been removed but the Devonian period was the “Age of Fishes” and as you walk along the gorge entrance you can spot fossils of numerous marine organisms from this time period embedded in the cliffs.