Wolfe Creek Crater

Don’t ask if that’s where the movies was based. I’m a bit precious when it comes to watching that kind of story.
Anyway, we came out alive.
A 500,000 ton meteorite crashed down here some 300,000 years ago. That would have been quite the splash. Today the Crater has been filed in by about 120 meters of sediment so the bottom of the crater in now only 20 meters below the level of the surrounding plains.
We walked the rim which has a circumference of 3.4K. That was a three-water-bottle-job. When we ducked back up the next dawn, we were delighted to catch a brilliant sunrise.
It was a bit bit too hot to do much, other than a bit of van/car maintenance during the hot part of the day. That of actual cloud cover at the start of the day and there was. 11 drop s of rain, but that soon burned off as the mercury reached 40°En savoir plus