Bungle Bungles

Triple wow at Purnululu… The first wow was the 250/300km drive down to Purnululu NP and the Bungle Bungles. The road took us through some incredibly stunning country. First we were seeing Fred Williams paintings and then there were parts that were purely Albert Namatjira. (Our completely inadequate photoshopped versions below!!)



The second wow was getting into the national park to camp close beside the huge Bungle Bungle range. We did some great walks into a few different gorges and chasms, and in amongst the famous eroded domes of the Bungles. By walking either very early in the morning or late in the afternoon, we pretty much had these walks to ourselves, meaning we could amuse ourselves endlessly with the acoustics.



And then, the wow to end all wows… we had a major splurge and took a helicopter flight for 30 minutes over the Bungles - outrageously expensive, but a once in a lifetime kind of thing. And despite the feeling that the universe sped up threefold for that particular 30 minutes, it was well worth it. It really was so beautiful, all the colours and shapes up on top of the range, the kilometres of the stripy domes spread out in front of us, the deep chasms in the rock with palms clinging to the rock face – all of it was really amazing, especially from a helicopter without doors, where you could look straight down onto the range.