Towards Kennedy Range National Park

We were reluctant to leave Warroora Station but we plan to be home by the middle of November with more to see in between.

We stopped at the Minilya Roadhouse to refuel at a very reasonable 1.39 CPL. From here we continued further south before turning inland on the Carnarvon Mullewa Road. We detoured into Rocky Pool just 4 km off the main road to have lunch. The pool is on the Gascoyne River and when we arrived there were four different groups camped here.
An entry Wiki Camps from 2016 suggested that camping was no longer allowed here but there were no signs indicating otherwise.

Our camp this evening is at the Gascoyne Junction roadhouse. All the facilities are new but at $43 per night for a powered site, I think it's a little steep but then they do have a captive audience. However, it did suit us with Ros catching up by doing seven loads of washing in our vans washing machine, with another two the following morning. It also gave us the chance to fill our tanks.

There has been a substantial amount of money spent on this park and roadhouse but unfortunately, no one is spending any time doing any maintenance. 
There were weeds growing through all the rockeries, the dump point was overflowing when we arrived and the shelves in the roadhouse were empty with just a few items here and there.

It was a late start for us this morning. The majority of last nights campers had already left the park by the time we left at 9:30. We stopped briefly at the roadhouse to refuel with diesel at $1.49 Cpl. It was automated, where you supply either your debit or credit card and how many dollars you wish to purchase.

After yesterdays drive of 395 km, today was just 60 km. We were off to spend time at the Kennedy Range National Park. We reduced our tyre pressures before leaving the park.

The first 48 km north from the Gascoyne Junction had only minor corrugations and rocky sections 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 ordinary with quite severe corrugations. What is it about access roads into national parks? I personally believe they deter people from visiting by making the roads as difficult as possible.

The Temple Gorge campground was almost full by the time we arrived. Roger the camp host found us a site that required a fair bit of backing 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 did finally reach the end. We could see that during the right conditions the end of the gorge would have a waterfall and pool.

Access is fairly limited within the park with just two other gorges to explore. Drapers Gorge is south of the camping area and Honeycomb Gorge several kilometres north. The range escarpment stretches away both north and south from the campground and looking at the maps it looks like it covers over 80 km.