Monday, May 30, 2011

162. Bungles, Wyndham

BUNGLE BEAUTY




This is a dry river bed. The rock features are a result of erosion that has taken millions of years to carve into the stone river bed.



CATHEDERAL GORGE



Following a two kilometre walk you enter what is known as The Cathederal. Although it was May, the temperature is still high & quite hot in the open sunshine. To enter The Cathederal is like entering another world in that it is darker & much cooler, it is strangely quiet & there is an ambience that of an ancient place. It was nice to drop the backpack & lie on the cool river stones & stare up into the cathederal walls & the sky above the clifftops.



SLIP



I found this feature of the cavern truly staggering. In lamens terms this is what has happened; there is water that flows below this section of rock. Each year the floodwaters arrive & over time as they flow they have eroded a section beneath this section of the cliff face causing it to collapse or slip under its own massive weight.



DOMES WALK






WYNDHAM ESCARPMENT



Again this is one of those landscapes that you just can’t capture in a photograph. The rock escarpment leading from the south into Wyndham is massive; the savannah below is vast & looks more like something out of Africa; like the Okavango Delta. We even spoke that you could easily imagine zebra, lion & giraffe roaming the plains.