A DESERT OASIS
Embraced by a national park spanning almost 3200 square kilometres, the Range’s red sandstone battlements dominate the western edge of the vast Gascoyne River catchment, a sparsely vegetated desert wilderness that bakes under a flawless blue sky by day and shimmers under a star-filled canopy at night. Though daunting in appearance, the park’s sheer cliffs beckon the adventurous traveller into a starkly beautiful landscape within a maze of sinuous gorges.
The Kennedy Range NP is well off the beaten track — 175km east of Carnarvon and 60km from the nearest town, Gascoyne Junction — making any visit a truly outback journey through one of the most forbidding regions in Western Australia. Yet access to the Temple Gorge campground on the Ranges’ eastern escarpment is relatively easy over
