Bungle bungles

. We left Wyndham after having morning tea with Darren and Bronwyn, she has a fabulous collection of photos that she has taken around Wyndham, especially during the wet season, it is a spectaluar place and takes on a whole new look. We were very pleased to catch up with them.
Our van was left in secure lock up at Turkey Creek, $8 a night, and travelled down to Spring Creek, a free camp at the turn off to the Bungle Bungles, in hindsight we could have left the van there as there were so many campers there it would have been quite safe and would have saved us 15o klms in backtracking. We were up and gone at 7am for the journey over fairly rough road into the ranges, a quick visit to the visitors centre where we parted with another $10 for a permit, $20 a night for camping, gets a bit much all these permits you have to get .
Twenty seven kilometres later we arrived at The Domes, Cathedral Gorge and Piccaninny Gorge, absolutely breathtaking, walking around the beehive domes that we had already seen in our plane flight a few weeks earlier. We headed back along the same road and set up camp at Kurrajong and set the fire, an early tea saw us in bed quite early, it had been a long day.
Up early again, we set off for a short drive to Mini Palms and Echidna Chasm, the first was a 5klm walk through a creek bed, pretty rough on the legs but a good early morning workout, right at the end of the walk you climb through rocks and up a few man made steps to a beautiful ampitheatre of palms. We came upon a group of tour bus people who got a shock when they saw us coming out of the Chasm, I think they thought that they were the only ones up and about that early.
Our next stop was the Echidna Chasm, WOW, only a short walk, once again through a rocky creek, we saw a bower birds nest, all of a sudden were standing in a place not more than 5 feet wide, we looked up to cliffs hundreds of metres high and where the sun had not yet shone through, it was eerie to say the least. Its a spooky feeling being right down at ground level of these huge monoliths that seem huge even from the air. Livistona Palms grow in the rocks, you wonder what nutrients are there for them to grow so high. Back out of the chasm there are numerous wild flowers , prickly red grevillea, wattles, quite a few different species and lots of other beautiful colours of plants.
Later that day we drove the 53klms out of the park and went to a free camp at Little Panton River,a very pretty spot met Hazel and Ron from Mackay and spent a lovely evening around the campfire. Tony went down and threw a hand line in the river and was joined by a Jabiru who thought it would be good to have someone else do their fishing for them. We are now in Halls Creek, went and had a look at the China Wall today, tomorrow will head out towards Fitzroy Crossing. Hope to meet up with my Uncle Mac and Aunty Vicki from Perth, they are currently in Port Headland. Will be back online when I can