The Window to the WORLD

It’s day 2 in The Bungle Bungles and before the flies have chance to annoy us and before the sun gets too hot, we pack up our roof top tent and head into The Bungle Bungles again.

Today we will follow Piccaninny Creek which this time of the year is a dry river bed comprising of pure fine sand, sandstone, boulders and smooth round pebbles and that have had thousands of years of water polishing. Often the sandstone has formed small crevasses or round holes in the river bed where pebbles have scoured and shaped the rock. Nature’s sandpaper at work.

It’s late May and you can imagine the river flowing in the wet season forming spas and pools of fresh liquid water to bath in. Not today though, the rock is hot on foot and it reflects the heat of the easterly sun with some intensity. There’s little or no shade in the river bed even at 7.30am although the contrasting morning shadows and full sun on the Beehives are impressive.

As part of the day’s adventure, we are hiking to one of the main attractions in the southern Purnululu National Park, a 3km walk to “The Window”.

The Window is nature at its best which has calved and eroded an abstract oval shaped hole through one of the domes, a window to the world. The contrast of red ochre rock and deep blue sky creates a magnificently high definition photo that Posh and Becks would be proud of.

The guys get a little creative with their pose from the opposite side of the window, the sun has that kind of affect out here... in fact, I think we have all gone a bit delusional from the heat as Jen takes off up Piccaninny Creek looking for the ice cream van!Read more