Our day trip yesterday was quite inspirational. We actually walked among the beehive domes and what’s more—–we could touch them. No need to Google for pictures: we’ve got them all ourselves.
Well I might snitch a cathedral picture because not even the ABC tours of Europe sets you up for capturing the sheer majesty and size of nature’s red cavernous sanctuary. (The real trick is to upload all the pictures in the order you want them. One day!)
The Bungle Bungles is a world phenomena in stone that is so uniquely Australian.
While Turkey may also have similar shaped domes, only the Aussie variety has the exclusive banding making them look like a neapolitan ice cream cone.
The cost of the 10 hour trip was pricey; not in dollar terms, but 5 hours in a huge 4WD bus travelling over some of the world’s best corrugated bush tracks. A heavily pleated road of dust providing a unifying massage of all the jiggly bits of 38 elderly senior cits.
About 5 kilometres of walking to see the sights from Picaninny Lookout and then Cathedral Gorge accomplished well before a welcome lunch and then back on the bus for more jiggling and Echidna Chasm. (your blogger joined the others who welched on the joys of the chasm, but the intrepid Isabel rounded out the day with a few more kilometres of bush walking and while I write, she is lying down recuperating)—me thinks it’s better to know the limits of Osteo Panadol & retire gracefully.
They round out the day’s touring with a dinner back at the caravan park which is a nice thought, after starting out the day at 7am.
Today we head for Wyndham in the East Kimberley, with its mission statement of “the last frontier” and “top town of Western Australia”
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