Towards Kennedy Range National Park

We were reluctant to leave Warroora Station, but we plan to be home by mid-November, with more to see along the way.
 
We stopped at the Minilya Roadhouse to refuel at a very reasonable 1.39 CPL. From there, we continued further south before turning inland onto the Carnarvon Mullewa Road. We detoured into Rocky Pool, just 4 km off the main road, to have lunch. The pool is located on the Gascoyne River, and upon our arrival, we found four different groups camping there.
An entry from Wiki Camps from 2016 suggested that camping was no longer permitted here, but there were no signs indicating otherwise.

Our camp for the evening is at the Gascoyne Junction Roadhouse. All the facilities are new, but at $43 per night for a powered site, it's a bit steep, although they do have a captive audience. Still, it was convenient for us, as Ros caught up by doing seven loads of washing in our van's washing machine, with another two the following morning. It also gave us the chance to fill our tanks.

A significant amount of money has been spent on this park and roadhouse, but unfortunately, no one is performing any maintenance. Weeds are growing through all the rockeries, the dump point was overflowing when we arrived, and the shelves in the roadhouse were nearly empty, with only a few items here and there. We had a late start this morning. Most of last night's campers had already left the park by the time we departed at 9:30. 

We stopped briefly at the roadhouse to refuel with diesel at $1.49 per litre. It was an automated process, where you supply either your debit or credit card and specify the amount you wish to purchase. After yesterday’s drive of 395 km, today’s journey was just 60 km. We planned to spend time at Kennedy Range National Park. Before leaving the park, we reduced our tyre pressures. 

The first 48 km north of Gascoyne Junction had only minor corrugations and rocky patches until we turned west onto the 12 km access road to the national park. From here to the Temple Gorge campground, the road was very rough with quite severe corrugations. What is it about access roads into national parks? They deter visitors by making the roads as difficult as possible.

The Temple Gorge campsite was nearly full by the time we arrived. Roger, the camp host, found us a spot that needed quite a bit of reversing to manoeuvre the van into. 

Adjacent to the campground is Temple Gorge, so after lunch, we headed up through the gorge to its far end. There was quite a bit of climbing and scrambling over rocks, but we finally reached the end. We could see that, under the right conditions, the end of the gorge would feature a waterfall and a pool.

Access within the park is quite limited, with only two other gorges to explore. Drapers Gorge is located south of the camping area, while Honeycomb Gorge is several kilometres to the north. The range escarpment extends both north and south from the campground, and looking at the maps, it appears to cover over 80 km.