The Bungle Bungles Part 2

 

I had to divide the Bungles into 2 parts as there are quite a lot of photos. This part is about the drive we took into the national park. We left the caravan park about 8am and got to the visitors centre about 9.20am. It is 53 km from the caravan park to the visitors centre. The road is quite corrugated in places and there are quite a few creek crossings. There were a few people coming out as they had camped in the park overnight.
After paying our money at the visitors centre we headed to the northern end of the park. First stop was Bloodwood Lookout, or so we thought. It turned out that we walked part of the way to Homestead valley before turning back to find Bloodwood lookout.

This is a view of the escarpment on the way to Homestead Valley.

This is Echidna Chasm with the midday sun shining down into it. The chasm walls are about 200metres high with a narrow opening at the top. The sun gets in between 11am and 1pm each day lighting up the area with brilliant colour

This is the narrow entrance to a deeper part of the chasm. It is only about a 2km return walk into the chasm.

Another chasm view where you have to walk up a small ladder to reach another level of the chasm

You can see in this photo how narrow the path into the chasm is. In the wet season the water would be thundering through here.

Looking back towards the entrance to the chasm from the narrowest part

Maura on the walk back out of the chasm

Ray in Echidna Chasm

This is a view of the escarpment just as you enter the chasm

This is the path into the chasm. You are actually walking on a dry river bed on smooth pebbles of varying sizes. A bit hard on the ankles. You can just imagine what it must be like in the wet season. Completely impassable.

This is an area of the park called Stonehenge on the way from the Northern end of the park to the southern end.

This was our first view at ground level of the Domes

A Dome close up. You can see clearly the coloured bands

A view of the domes on the walk into Cathedral Gorge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Cathedral Gorge

Cathedral Gorge with a pool in the foreground. It opens up into a huge amphitheatre with wonderful acoustics

The pool in Cathedral Gorge

A termite mound in the park



























We got back to the caravan park just before 5pm but we had a great day.
The next day we left to head towards Katherine. We stopped overnight at a free camp called Saddle Creek about 100km east of Kununurra. It was packed but we squeezed in and the next day headed to Katherine and back to the Low Level Caravan Park. We are staying here for 6 nights as we are going to Katherine Show on Friday. I hope it is better than Longreach Show.
Then we are heading to Mataranka. I will do more Blog there.