Picaninny Gorge to Echidna Chasm Saturday 30th July 2011

Purnululu National park covers approx. 45000 hectares with an array of banded sandstone domes and conglomerate and we head along Picaninny Creek in order to see these domes towering majestically around us. We continue our walk onto Cathedral Gorge through striped domes, pebbles, potholes & honeycomb rocks that lead to an ampitheatre. Here an elderly gentleman entertains the crowd with his singing before we are all singing "Walzing Matilda".
We drive to the other end of the park for the walk to Echidna Chasm which was a spectacular walk which was completely different to the others. Instead of the honeycomb domes, we were greeted with a trudge along a stony creek bed before having steep conglomerate walls narrow to form a chasm just a metre wide. Our day was competed with a sunset view of the western face of the Bungles at Kungkalanyi Lookout.