{"id":173,"date":"2012-12-21T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-01-03T04:55:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:55:25","slug":"porcupine-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2012\/12\/21\/porcupine-gorge\/","title":{"rendered":"Porcupine Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Porcupine Gorge + White Mountains National Park : Porcupine was gorgeous (sorry Ithica) and a nice place to camp. I couldn’t book the campsite in advance but fortunately there were plenty of spaces available. Only 2 other couples camping. <\/p>\n

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Porcupine Gorge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like Carnarvan Gorge, Porcupine Gorge seemed to have its own micro-climate of lush green tropics even though the surrounding landscape was brown. The camping was on the ridge at the top but there was a 1km trail I hiked down to visit the gorge floor first thing in the morning (while it was cool). <\/p>\n

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Porcupine Gorge with kangaroo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Porcupine Gorge at bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Porcupine Gorge Flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterwards I headed for White Mountains National Park to re-evaluate whether I wanted to camp in the hot, dry, isolated (snake infested?) place and decided to just mountain bike the 10km 4wd track in there instead. Racked up 25km round trip (including a little side exploring in the forest) which felt good for a change from driving all the time.<\/p>\n

White Mountains National Park MTB<\/a>