Days
88-89 Watarrka National Park
We stayed at the
Kings Canyon Resort and Holiday Park.
There was a bushfire nearby a few days ago and the resort was
evacuated. Their sunset viewing platform
was damaged but everything else seems OK.
As is normal in the red centre, we camped on red dust in the unpowered
section. The Amenities are new and
pretty good. There are stable-like doors
on them to keep the dingoes out. There
seems to be lots of building/renovating going on here, and it was a bit
mismatched, e.g. there were abundant picnic/dishwashing areas around the park,
but the plugs were the wrong size for the sinks, so we couldn’t actually wash
our dishes there. Some amenities were
still being worked on / completed. There
was a beautiful big swimming pool but it was freezing, and full of gum leaves
and dead hornets, so it wasn’t very appealing.
Keith was brave and swam in it but even he didn’t stay in long. A friend told us that the resort has just
changed hands, so maybe they’re in a transition. It was all perfectly adequate for our needs
though, and very reasonably priced.
There is a petrol station at the entrance to the park that is also a
general store. There is H+ mobile
reception here, but it’s a bit hit and miss, because the tower is on the roof
of the reception building, about 300 metres away from our camp site.
We went to Kings
Canyon itself (6km drive from the resort, https://nt.gov.au/leisure/parks-reserves/find-a-park/find-a-park-to-visit/watarrka-national-park ) and Ben and Nicole did the 6km Rim Loop,
which takes 3-4 hours according to the sign.
They did it in 3hrs. The K-team
chose the shorter, easier walk along the creek, which took about 45
minutes. There were lots of flies, but
also interesting info boards and sculptures of birds and animals along the way. After all that we had a rest/recovery
afternoon back at camp.
Ben and Nicole heading to the start of the rim walk. 
And up the stairs they go...
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