Purnlulu to Fitzroy Crossing

Bungle Bungles

We stopped at a free camp just outside the Bungle Bungle (we could have paid $50/night at the caravan park or stayed for free here – no brainer!). The road in was 53km of unforgiving corrugation, winds & turns, creek crossings and nasty rock obstacle courses! By the time we made it to the visitor centre ¾ of the children were carsick and even us adults were feeling pretty seedy. Luckily the roads inside the National Park were straighter and less corrugated!  The actual domes are amazing – striped beehives of rock coloured red & black. We also did a very hot trek into Cathedral Gorge which was beautiful. It was far too hot for Miss T though so we didn’t stay long to look around. 

We raced up north to Echidna Chasm hoping to see the sunlight penetrate through the Chasm at midday. Unfortunately we were a bit late after the difficult walk through the creekbed to get there. But we still really enjoyed the adventure and made it right to the end of the chasm! 

Wolfe Creek Crater (By Kieren)

Being the adventurers that we are we decided the brave a trip to the second largest crater in the world. So after applying some psycho killer repellent we took a short trip down the Tanami Track. I must say this was a surprisingly smooth ride for a 4wd track – then we turned left!! After a bone shuddering ride that rearranged all of our internal organs we arrived at the sign warning us that a gate was ahead (..mate) – very Australian and made us smile.

The crater itself was something of a marvel. The photos really don’t do the crater justice as it is really quite large and about 20meters deep. Quite a steep descent into the crater with some lose rocks but we managed to get down and to the centre of the crater upon which miss T announced that she was just like a billy goat.

That night we camped along the edge of the Tanami Track at a camping spot where we had left the caravan on the trip in. No moon (it was a new moon), no lights and the most amazing star show we have ever seen. The Milky Way seemed so bright, and of course the monkeys had fun with a fire J