Purnululu (Bungle Bungles)

Next on the list was the famous Purnululu National Park, south of Kununurra. We headed down the Fitzroy, and then the 1.5 hours of dirt road in pretty appalling condition (it was only 50km a or so of dirt but took us that long!) to get to the Bungles. This National Park has its reputation for a reason, it is really spectacular!
We got into the park just before dark so headed up to the northern section to see Echidna Chasm and the incredible sunset light up the rock.
The next day we headed south to the start the 2 night bushwalk up into the gorge system of Piccaninny Creek and the 5 Fingers Gorges. The ‘beehive’-like rock dome structures with their organic, flowing outlines that went on for kilometres and were so pleasing to the eye. It looked like a ginormous pottery sculpture. As we walked up further into the gorge system, the rock turned into a escarpment walls 200m high on either side. We only saw 2 other people in the three days we were hiking in there. Camping in there felt incredibly surreal, like we were in an Indiana Jones movie😆 Despite it being really hot and walking on lots of sand at points, this was one of our favourite experiences on the whole trip!Read more