Day 61 - Rocky Pool (6 Nov)

Drove 50kms from Carnarvon today to check out Rocky Pool.   Driving through a very arid desolate landscape you wonder what we are going to see there is lots of nothingness.  Eventually we see the sign for Rocky Pool 4km on dirt road and end up at oasis.  It is beautiful.  A clear blue fresh water pool with ghost gums and paperbarks around the banks and deep red rocks. This is one of the pools along the Gascoyne River where the water holds after the river ceases to flow.  We found a shady tree and had our picnic lunch.  There was a time when you could camp along the pool but camping is no longer allowed.  If this is an example of some of the gorges and pools in the Kimberleys and Pilbara then we are in for a real treat.  The windmill was taken on the way home, I like it as to me it really represents the outback.