HIDDEN HELL HOLE
The track dropped down a low escarpment and crossed a small dry creek which, it turned out, was a tributary of the much bigger Powell Creek that makes up the major catchment area in this rugged 12,700ha national park. We then took a more minor track, bumping over a few low rocky outcrops into the cliff-lined Spencers Waterhole on Spencer Creek and a major tributary of the Powell Creek. Both creeks have cut deep incisions through the surrounding highlands, resulting in a dissected and tortured landscape with vertical cliffs up to 45 metres high surrounding both these two streams.
We were in south-western Queensland, north-west of the small township of Adavale, heading for the little known Hell Hole Gorge NP. We had left the town little over an hour earlier and after crossing a dry section of the Bulloo River, just west of the town,
