Bungle bungles

Tackling Purnululu (Bungle Bungles) a two hour dirt road drive into the park and well worth it. The southern section of the range in made up of bee hive like domes banded black and red shell. The red is iron oxide and the black Cyanobacteria. If this shell is damaged the sandstone underneath erodes.

Mum and dad did the domes walk (met a yellow pythons in a cave) while we trekked to the window along the creek bed. Hottest walk ever with the sun blazing, the heat reflecting off the white sand and radiating off the black rock. Felt like you were in an oven. Then to Cathedral gorge around the domes and back to the car. Quick put the air conditioning on. After cooling off on the drive to the northern section of the park the walk to the Echidna Chasm was shaded and comes alive when the sun is overhead.

Then back to the van park for a cool drink.

Bungle Bungles well worth the turn off the highway.Read more