I have been meaning to post about this trip for nearly two years! Our long awaited extended family Carnarvon Gorge trip. We prepped, we planned, we made the kids go on long walks, and then it rained. And rained.

We travelled out to the gorge, stopping at Roma for a night. We did briefly consider alternative plans but we were meeting family there who were booked into cabins, so decided to go ahead.

We only got one day in the gorge, so didn’t get to do all the sides walk we wanted to. The plan was to do the main track with kids and see how far we got, then the next day kids and those with tired legs would take a break while keen walkers went further into the gorge, then the next day to explore the smaller side tracks. But unfortunately it rained so hard the national park got closed because the water levels were so high. Then the caravan park told us their entrance might flood, and also the road in and out would flood also. But hopeful of getting that second day, we stayed.

It kept raining. We got flooded in. We rode bikes through puddles, watched the creek rise, played board games, watched movies on the iPad, saw a wild echidna, saw different types of wallabies and had our section of the camp ground to ourselves. The water receded in time for us to leave as planned, but the national park didn’t open for a few weeks after that.

We got to see the gorge in green, misty and rainy. We got to admire our littlest one who walked 8 kilometers after she fell into the creek and got wet shoes. We made plans to come back in later years when it wasn’t flooded (the next year there was fires out there instead).

One day we will go back and finish off the rest of our walk.