Day 122-124 Kununurra – Bungle Bungles 31st July – 3rd August

A long drive south along the tarmac led us to the Bungle Bungles – or as it is now known – the Purnululu National Park. Following a juddery 50km drive in on dirt roads, including several small river crossings we camped in the Walardi Campground, in the south of the park. We were in luck and found Rob, Fiona and their kids, Isabele, Siobhian and Liam that we had met from Home Valley there – so our family and Nick & Brigid's family all camped in the same large spot.

Say Bungles Bungles

The three campsites at night

Time to cook chicken and veggie curry

Brigid made yummy trifle for everyone on the last night!

 

Over the next couple of days, amongst others, we walked along the spectacular Cathedral Gorge with its beehive like domes, viewed Echidna Chasm at noon watching the sun barley reach the bottom of the gorge but yet it in a warm orange glow, watched sunsets changing the colours of the tremendous rock formations that form the park.

Wickhams Grevillea

Car-surfing

Domes of the Bungle Bungles

Pebbles in large sink-holes

Kimberley Heather

Cockroach Bush

Jasmine surrounded by a sea of cockroaches

Mini-Jasmine on Mini-Palm walk

Fiona squeezing through boulders on the mini-palms walk

At the end of the mini-palms walk

Resting at end of Echidna Chasm

Jordan and the kids tried to identify flowers and bush-tucker on the walk. The are quickly becoming experts, leaving most of the adults in their wake.

Sucking the nectar from Silver-leaf Grevillea

Ben eating bush-tucker

The nine kids from the three families formed a tribe and played games and told terrible jokes to while away the lazy afternoons, as we recovered from our arduous morning walks. One evening we even sang and played guitar and piano around a camp-fire which was a lot of fun. The Bungle Bungles certainly lived up to their reputation.

Ben and Siobhain drawing together

Isabell stumming chords

The master-chefs making yummy coconut balls

Playing capitalists Monopoly Deal late into the night