Exploring Carnarvon Gorge Queensland Australia
Scott and Katrina Mitchell explore Queensland's beautiful Carnarvon in outback Australia from their tent base at Takarakka Bush Resort.
Carnarvon Gorge - Queensland, Australia
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Travel blogs from Carnarvon Gorge:
- ... Our favourite place this week was Carnarvon Gorge in Inland Queensland ...
- ... , when it rains in Oz, it pours It was a shame as we had an extra night here because of not going to Carnarvon Gorge but were limited to watching movies in the hostel bar and the subsequent carnage that is jaegerbombs Rainbow was to lead us on ...
- ... Looking forward to Carnarvon Gorge tomorrow, and hoping that the weather will hold out and maybe get nicer, it's over cast today ...
- ... We arrived just before dark in time to watch an outside slide show about Carnarvon Gorge ...
- ... We also had to stock up on the groceries, fruit & vegies as our next stop is Carnarvon Gorge for 6 days and no phone or email coverage within a 100km radius ...
- ... On Saturday we set off for Carnarvon Gorge National Park, carrying a wheel from the Injune Garage for some poor bugger who'd done a tyre in on the road to ...
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- Atherton, Queensland, Australia
- Injune, Queensland, Australia
Photos in this video:
- Entrance to the Amphitheatre, Carnarvon Gorge by Elopfamily from a blog titled Crackin' a Mental at the Sparrow's ****
- Uitzicht over Carnarvon Gorge by Whvanderpost from a blog titled Carnarvon Gorge National Park
- Rappin Roo at Carnarvon Gorge by Elopfamily from a blog titled Crackin' a Mental at the Sparrow's ****
- Tent at Carnarvon Gorge by Elopfamily from a blog titled Crackin' a Mental at the Sparrow's ****
- Carnarvon Gorge Hike by Elopfamily from a blog titled Crackin' a Mental at the Sparrow's ****
- Carnarvon Gorge by Elopfamily from a blog titled Crackin' a Mental at the Sparrow's ****
Carnarvon Gorge walking trails
This is a video showcasing Carnarvon Gorge camping, and walking trails in Central Queensland, Australia.
The video shows a number of walks and features around the National Park, including walks to Ward's Gardens, the art gallery, the amphitheatre, and the moss gardens.
There are a number of activities and things to do in and around Carnarvon Gorge, including hiking, walking, camping, helicopter sightseeing, swimming and much more.
To get to Carnarvon follow the road west from Calliope (Dawson Hwy), passing through Biloela, Moura and Rolleston, then take a left onto Carnarvon highway for a further 35km and then turn right towards Carnarvon Gorge, following the signs to the national park. There are a number of camp sites, however Takarakka is the busiest. Best to book during the school holidays as it does get very busy.
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Sandstone Park, Carnarvon Gorge
An overhead shot of Sandstone Park camp ground at Carnarvon Gorge. A fantastic open campground with large sites. This was at Stage 1 of the development and only self contained vehicles were permitted.
This was taken over private property with the owners consent and not over the National Park.
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Carnarvon NP Qld - DVD out of print
DVD Currently Out Of Print - We were in Roma and figured that the Carnarvon National Park was just up the road, so let's go look at. We parked our caravan at Injune and camped overnight at the Mount Moffat section of the park. We then picked up the van and moved onto the Carnarvon Gorge section. These few days were spent in a part of paradise.
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Carnarvon Gorge
Carnarvon Gorge is located in the Southern Brigalow Belt bioregion in Central Queensland (Australia), 593 km northwest of Brisbane. Primarily created by water erosion, Carnarvon Gorge is around 30 kilometres long, located in Carnarvon National Park, and six hundred metres deep at the mouth. It is the most visited feature within Carnarvon National Park due to the diversity of experiences it contains and the ease with which it can be accessed. The closest towns are Injune and Rolleston.
Some researchers have suggested that Aboriginal people did not live in the gorge permanently, due to defensive concerns and lack of food resources, whilst others suggest that permanent occupation was not allowed due to the gorge being considered sacred. The dreamtime stories tell a tale of the Rainbow Serpent which made the gorges, and resides in their permanent waterholes to this day.
Ludwig Leichhardt was the first European explorer to pass nearby and make note of the ranges, during his expedition to Port Essington in 1844. Two years later, Thomas Mitchell passed to the west of Carnarvon Gorge. It was Mitchell who named the Carnarvon Range after Caernarfon in Wales. The reports of pastureland and good water carried back to the colonies brought settlers to the area, and began a period of bloody conflict between settlers and Aboriginals.
By the late 1870s the newcomers had prevailed. Local Aboriginals sought refuge on properties run by those sympathetic to their plight. Subsequent years would see many forcibly removed from their homelands and transferred to government and church run reserves and missions. The latter process of removal is considered by some to have been, culturally, more destructive than the direct conflict that preceded it.
The farming of cattle and growing of crops remains a vibrant industry around Carnarvon Gorge but, since 1932 when it was gazetted as a National Park, such activities have no longer been allowed in the gorge itself. In 1974, the Ka Ka Mundi area which had been heavily grazed for about a century, also became part of the park. In place of the grazing of cattle, a tourism industry has grown. Over 65,000 visitors per annum make the trek to Carnarvon Gorge, in a pattern of visitation that echoes that of the original Aboriginal groups - no permanent occupation, but regular pilgrimage to a widely recognised place of significance.
Within the lower ten kilometres of the Gorge, visitors can encounter a variety of cultural and natural values that, elsewhere in the region, would require considerable travel to experience; significant Indigenous cultural sites and rock art sites, narrow sandstone canyons, extensive sandstone cliff lines, basalt-capped tablelands and mountain ranges, and relict rainforest vegetation.
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