Monday 27th August - Thursday 30th August 2012 - The Bungle Bungles

It took us a while to get organised and to leave town. We finally left around lunchtime and drove down to the Bungle Bungles. We had also intended to get down to Wolf Creek Crater but in the end we couldn't be bothered with the extra drive. After our stay in Kununurra with Rose and Shane it was hard to get back into camping mode again!
We got into The Bungles and set up camp in the southern end of the park. The road in was a little average and took us about 2 hours.
We could hear dingos howling and owls hooting at night. It was pretty warm too.
We booked a half hour helicopter flight for the Wednesday morning and then we went off exploring.
Our first walk was up to the Picanniny Creek Lookout. We followed the dried up creek line and then walked around some of the classic beehive domes to the lookout. The layers of rocks are beautiful to look at. I'm not sure that the photo's truly reflect the lovely colours of the rocks.

The next walk was up to the Cathedral Gorge. Even though we had started walking early in the morning it was already hot by 9am! It wasn't a particularly long walk but the rock walls soared above us and narrowed before opening out into this lovely round shape at the end. There was some water still there - just. I could imagine a singer getting amazing sounds out of this space.

Lastly we returned back to the carpark via the short 1km domes walk. It wove through the smaller beehive domes of the park which are the iconic images of the Bungles.

Resting and looking forward to a cold drink!

Resting after a hot morning exploring.

The next day we had our big treat - a helicopter flight over the Bungles (my birthday present). Ed, Thomas and Olivia went in one helicopter and Charlotte and I were in another. THey just have normal car seat belts and the doors are removed. It was awesome. The splendour of the whole park was fantastic to see. The beehive domes were beautiful as we flew over the top of them. It was wonderful!

Taking off

Views from the air

Landing

After our fantastic helicopter experience we drove up to Echidna Chasm. It was a lovely walk following a creek line into the chasm which got progressively more narrow the further we walked.

 Walking into the chasm

 A Bower Bird nest along the way

Getting smaller...

We reached the end! 

We had a lovely end to our Bungles experience with a sunset viewing of the rocks.

We packed up Thursday morning and drove back into Kununurra.