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After a lot of discussion we decided to say goodbye to the Gibb for now and take the sealed road to Purnululu National Park instead. We had planned to go up and back but felt we hadn't missed too much and would enter Windjana from Tunnel Creek instead.
Turned off the dirt and hit the Great Northern, sheer bliss but not for long as the 53km track into The Bungle Bungles took 2 hours. No corrugation but lots of dips and blind corners and muddy crossings.
We hadn't planned to meet up but on dusk we were joined by two of the families we met in Home Valley.
Spent the next three days exploring this incredible landscape with our mob of fifteen.
Up early and drove in convoy to Cathedral Gorge. It was a hoot bumping along with CB radio in hand and a few "Ten Fours" and "Roger Wilco" call outs before a serious voice came across the airways and told us to get off the emergency channel......oops!
A few people had said the park was too big and needed to be seen by the air but it was incredible having these huge ancient rock formations looming above you. The famous bee hive domes are only found in the southern part of the park, beautifully striped in black and orange. Jordan and Izzy the botanists hit it off exploring the flora while Adam and Liam talked nonstop about "Transformers". Vorney happily skipped along and chatted to the other kids Ben, Jasmine, Conor and Daniel.
That night an impromptu performance around the campfire with Vin, Izzy, Vorney and Hans (last saw him at Manning Gorge) on guitar accompanied by Jordan on his foldout keyboard. The rest of us joined in on vocals and it must have been okay as we managed to drag over a few other campers or perhaps they were just cold.
Up early again to explore the northern half of the park. Mini Palms Gorge which has some very impressive rock conglomerates. They were made up of small rocks shaped perfectly round by the force of the water and then glued together by sediment into these huge round boulders. Made it into Echidna Chasm just as the sun was beaming down which throws off a spectacular orange hue.
Spent the afternoons playing scrabble and chess back at camp to escape the heat.
Magical place, dingoes howling in the dead of night, great company, awesome scenery what more could you ask for!
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brian sounds brilliant...where,s the tardis