Walk into Cathedral Gorge and the Womens

Anything I write to try and capture the experience of walking among the ancient formations of The Bungles is going to sound like a poor attempt at narrating a nature documentary .
The landscape is ancient, worn down by time and the weather. The rock colours of Violet, pink,ochre, red and black,are individually pretty, but collectively breathtaking. At times all I heard was the whisper of the wind through the grasses, at others the chatter of my companions echoing down the Gorge, or bouncing off the wall of the huge amphitheatre -like cavern at the end of the Gorge.
20 people sat in absolute silence, in awe and dwarfed by the scale of this place.
Rachel took us to see the women's business cavern. It has a pool at the base, and is a birthing place for the traditional people of this land. Despite being completely protected, the waters on the surface were swirling as we arrived. The pattern on the surface formed a perfect ying and yang. We followed along a creek bed to get to the forge. There are deep pools etched into the rock base by stones tumbling in the current when the water flows during the wet.Read more