I can't remember the name of all the cards involved, but hopefully I can get enough info out for a correct answer.
In one of the Mummy's Mask base set scenarios, it gives the rule 'For your first exploration of your turn, do nothing'.
Later in the game, we encountered one of those barriers (Fallen Rubble?) that sits on a location and says 'Characters here encounter this barrier as their first exploration', or something similar when you fail to defeat it.
By literal reading, it seems like a character at the same location of that barrier would never encounter it after the first time, because your 'first exploration' is negated, thus playing a card to explore is, by definition, an additional exploration.
Something tells me this can't be right, but I can't find the hole in the logic, and a quick look through the rulebook didn't reveal anything (though, like I said, it was a quick look, didn't want to hold the game up too long).
Both rules contradict each other, so the hierarchy tells you to give priority to the scenario rule - I think your interpretation is correct.
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You encounter the barrier the first time you actually explore. Just like you can't skip the barrier if you use RotR Kyra's healing power.
See this FAQ. So, you can't explore for free, so the first time you play a card to explore, you'd encounter the barrier. Likewise, if there were multiple face up barriers, you wouldn't get to skip the ones after the first one just because it wasn't technically your first exploration.