Yardie Creek Gorge boat and hike

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Yardie creek homestead sunset, always my favourite time  of the day.


The day started with the short 40 min drive from the Yardie Creek Homestead camping ground to Yardie Creek, which is nestled in the Cape Range National Park

Yardie Creek is on the lands of the Baiyunga, Thalanyji and Yinigurdira people.

Yardie Creek is unique in that it has its own permanent water source flowing between the sheer cliffs of the Yardie Creek Gorge and flows into the ocean via an underground source, however it will flow directly into the ocean during times of high rainfall. 

We travelled on the creek in a boat captained by the knowledgeable and often hilarious Ash.

Ash provided us with a running commentary throughout the trip , providing us with a brief history of the area and all the industries that have been a part of Exmouth history. 

Ash also had a very good knowledge of the animals residing within the gorge. He knew where each of them  resided Wallabies and Ospreys and kept count as we found more, from memory I think we seen 25 different black footed rock wallabies (Warru)

We had been extremely lucky to see two of these wallabies the day before and I specifically chose these images as it is much easier to see them against the red background. These wallabies are extremely shy and often only come out to feed at dusk. However they like most aussies they like a good sunbake.

Unfortunately due to predators both indigenous and imported (feral cats and foxes) these cute little wallabies are actually endangered with approximately one 12 000 remaining in the wild.

After the boat tour we did the relatively easy (grade 4) 

Yardie Creek Gorge walk. The walk is a 2km walk that hugs the perimeter of the Yardie creek gorge.

It provides you with the opportunity to see the amazing limestone cliffs 

It also provides you with the opportunity to see more wildlife.

And we did , we seen the Osprey above. This fella was happily sitting on the branch preening himself whilst several of us mad photographers inched closer and closer to get a good photo.

It was not phased at all.

And i was extremely excited to get this close and test out my new lens which had arrived the day before.

It was a lovely day out, we followed it with a snorkel to cooldown.

But more about that later.

Until the Next blog 

Travel safe 

The Touring Knights


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