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Already having a great time in Purnululu National Park. The scenery is incredible, we have a nice quiet campsite, and the music of crickets and frogs is making me sleepy.
Our campsite is next to a dry river bed, which Jesse wanted to explore after lunch. We had been going only half a minute when we saw a Brolga about 150 yards up the creek, which is terribly exciting because I’ve only ever seen them once, and from a much greater distance. But of course I didn’t have the camera with me, and as I rushed to get it, of course the bird disappeared. Fortunately it had just sidled up a tributary, and we spotted it a minute later, and I got some shots from about fifty yards which are hopefully okay.
The main event of the day was a drive past the sandstone domes at the south end of the range, and a walk to Cathedral Gorge. The range looked fantastic in the afternoon sun. The topology is so unusual that it feels other-worldly ... I half expected to see Yoda peeping out from one of the caves. Did you know that there are red wattle flowers? Neither did I, but they are everywhere here, and nicely complement the yellow ones and the green spinifex.
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