This area of amazing rock formations was only discovered in 1983 when a documentary film crew flew over the area and saw the amazing striped domes.
This almost 240,000 hectare National Park is a World Heritage site. It includes the Bungle Bungle Range, 'a spectacularly incised landscape of sculptured rocks which contains superlative examples of beehive-shaped karst sandstone rising 250 metres above the surrounding semi-arid savannah grasslands'. [World Heritage Listing]
We visited two different areas of the Bungle Bungle Range. This was our first sighting.
We walked many kilometres enthralled with the scenery. From Piccaninny we walked the Domes Walk, Cathedral Gorge and to the Piccaninny Creek Look-out.
Our guide Andy explaining about the earth formations in the area.
We walked through the narrow and spectacular 200 metre high cliffs which brought us to the natural amphitheatre that is Cathedral Gorge. It is so big that you cannot capture its size or its beauty.
Our group at Piccaninny Look-out.
Some of our group took a helicopter ride over the range, which was apparently absolutely spectacular, whilst the rest of us prepared a barbecue lunch.
After lunch we did a native foods walking trail and then headed to the other end, the northern end, of the Bungle Bungles to visit Echidna Chasm.
Echidna Chasm is a massive crack in the rock and was both breathtaking and scary. As we weren't all walking together there were spooky sounds echoing about and I wasn't ever really sure that I wasn't lost. However there was unbelievable colour, pre-historic livistona palms and conglomerate boulders to amaze us. Access requires concentration as the chasm is quite narrow.
The end of the chasm, a solid conglomerate rock wall.
The sun had set and the moon was rising as we arrived back at the camp. After dinner the camp hostess Bec told us some stories of the Dreamtime and her family life in the Kimberley. She educated and entertained us until bed time; the end of day three.
Looks great
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