With our Mitchell excursion done today we returned to the Gibb River Road and continued our westward journey. The first leg of the days journey was 60km south from Drysdale to the Gibb River Rest area and then 110 west to Mount Barnett Road House and the nearby Manning Gorge Campground. There was not much of note on todays drive, lots of road corrugations, a surprising number of fellow travellers, maybe 50 other cars most towing a camper of some form and two notable river crossings where we took a few photos. We crossed the Gibb River just before rejoining the Gibb River Road and the Barnett River just before the similarly named road house.

Manning Gorge and its associated campground is accessed through Mount Barnett road house (one buys a permit at the road house and an attendent at the campground checks that you have one). In addition to camping the permit allows one to walk into Manning Gorge but more importantly to swim in the waterhole near the campground.