Archive for June, 2012

It took me 3.5 hours to get to Purnululu National Park and almost half of that time was to travel on this rough dirt road for only 60km. Guess you can see how slow I was going on this road.

I have been to many places in Australia in the last few weeks that words and pictures just cannot do them any justice. This is another one of them, the Bungle Bungles. It was impossible to capture what I saw with my bare eyes. It was as spectacular as I thought it would be. It made the 60km rough off-road track worthwhile at the end.

First went to the visitor centre to book myself the camp sites. They have the North and the South side. I decided to stay at the North the first night then the South the next.

I went on the walking tracks before heading to the camp site. They were the Echinda Chasm and Mini Palm Gorge tracks.

Echinda Chasm – I simply could not take photo of this place to show the ‘wow’ness of it. The only way I could describe it is that the feeling like being in the movie ‘Indiana Jones’. Truly, I felt like I was.

Mini Palm Gorge – The track to wasn’t very difficult but you do have to climb over some big boulders that were bit dangerous when you have a backpack, camera and iPhone in your hand 🙂 The gorge was dried already and I have to say it wasn’t as impressive as it should have been. The walk was fun though.

Day 1 in Bugle Bungle was over and was time to head over to the camp site. Fixed myself some simply dinner and watched a movie on my iPad then went to sleep.

Wake up on day 2 with a headache and I know it was caffeine withdrawn. I have them all the time if I don’t have coffee for a couple of days. I soldiered on and did my third Bungle walk, the Cathedral Gorge walk. To get here, I had to drive another 30km from the camp site to the Southern side of the park.

Cathedral Gorge – The walk was relatively easy after the walks the previous day. It was a little bit longer so the return trip took about 2 hours for me (walking slowly and taking pictures). The walk eventually ends at gorge with this rock amphitheatre. It was absolutely amazing place thinking that nature had created it.

I didn’t really have time to do the Piccadilly Gorge and Creek walk. It was a 20km return trip. I would have walked it if I wasn’t push for time. Greg is meeting me in Perth next week. That gives me just less than a week to get to Perth. I had to skip part of my trip, the Gibb River Road. I guess will have to do it some other time.

I decided after Cathedral Gorge that I won’t stay the night. I would use the time to drive to Fitzroy Crossing. It was basically where I would have end up if I take the Gibb River Road. I was exhausted when I got in and couldn’t possibly finish this post. I parked on the side of the highway and just ‘crashed’.

Bungle Bungle Range is definitely one of those places that should be in everyone’s bucket list. Look for people in a couple of the images and you will have the sense of just how big they actually are.

John @ Fitzroy Crossing, W.A.