We travelled on the Rio Tinto Rail Access Road to Millstream Chichester National Park, viewing several iron ore trains along the way, arriving to set up camp in the Mliyanha Campground around 2:30pm. As we only had two nights here, we grabbed the bikes off the car and did the 7km cycle trail along to the cliff lookout and then onto Deep Reach Pool for a quick swim. After 6.5km back, Sippy got a puncture, just as we turned back into the campground – lucky as we didn’t feel like walking the bike all that way back!
Day Two we drove back to the Roebourne Wittenoom Road, heading north for 20kms before turning off to Python’s Pool. This involved 10km on terrible corrugations before the road returned to bitumen for the last 9km’s. A bonus along this road was our first sighting of the beautiful red Sturt Desert Pea, which is WA’s State flower. On the way in we stopped at Mt Herbert to do the 4.5km return walk to McKenzie Spring. This was very interesting as we hiked through different flora including many wildflowers. There had been a recent bushfire resulting in many burnt out spinifex plants. We finished the walk by climbing to the top of Mt Herbert for beautiful views across the Pilbara. It was then onto Python’s Pool for a picnic lunch and a refreshing swim in the deep swimming hole surrounded by a backdrop of ancient, rugged cliffs. We were lucky to have the place to ourselves for 20mins so we both had a swim and took video of us being the only one’s swimming in this majestic place – magical.
Day Two we drove back to the Roebourne Wittenoom Road, heading north for 20kms before turning off to Python’s Pool. This involved 10km on terrible corrugations before the road returned to bitumen for the last 9km’s. A bonus along this road was our first sighting of the beautiful red Sturt Desert Pea, which is WA’s State flower. On the way in we stopped at Mt Herbert to do the 4.5km return walk to McKenzie Spring. This was very interesting as we hiked through different flora including many wildflowers. There had been a recent bushfire resulting in many burnt out spinifex plants. We finished the walk by climbing to the top of Mt Herbert for beautiful views across the Pilbara. It was then onto Python’s Pool for a picnic lunch and a refreshing swim in the deep swimming hole surrounded by a backdrop of ancient, rugged cliffs. We were lucky to have the place to ourselves for 20mins so we both had a swim and took video of us being the only one’s swimming in this majestic place – magical.
Arriving back at the campground around 4pm, we grabbed the drone and headed back to the cliff top to take some footage of the river. Sippy is still learning to drive the device, with his first crash into a bush at the top of the cliff. Luckily it was at the top and we could retrieve it – all good! We then set the drone to follow the car, capturing some great footage on the red dirt. We headed back to cook dinner and watch the sun set behind the snappy white gums surrounding our camp site.
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