Left the Cattle Station at 8.00 am and continued our third days journey through the Kimberley’s up to the Bungle Bungles. It will be our last day to complete our journey through the Kimberly’s before we cross over to Northern Territory. Although on saying that we still have five more days near the border before we cross over. Two nights in Kununurra and three nights in Lake Argyle which both places are just near the WA / NT border inside WesternAustralia. We arrived at the Bungle Bungles at about 1130am and settled in the caravan Park which is in the middle of nowhere. Real outback. At 2.00pm we had a helicopter trip over the bungles instead of doing the 12 hour trip by bus. That would have been great but probably just too bigger day being knocked around on a very bumpy road.
The Bungle Bungles, rising 300 metres above the grass-covered plains that surround them. The orange and black sandstone domes are one of the worlds most fascinating geological landscapes. The world heritage listed Bungle Bungle Range is located within Purnululu National Park in the Kimberley region of WA.Purnululu, meaning ‘sandstone’, has long being inhabited by local Aboriginal people. But did not become well known to the rest of the world until the mid-1980s. What a great experience seeing them from the air looking down into them. In the photos you can’t believe they could be as highest 300mtres. They look so much smaller looking down on them.
Some real creamy orange landscape today on the way through.
Here’s our big moment partly cloudy/sun. We were lucky after a couple of wet nights previously.
This one is for Dave.
Sitting in the chopper waiting for it to warm up before take off. Just as we were lifting I took this photo looking through the camp. Our van in the middle.
Am I really doing this 🤞 especially after hearing that we were flying on a Robinson!
Look at these ridges over the land.
Flying over a very large Cattle Station before we reach the Bungles.
Looking up the Gorge which is 300 metres deep. The chopper is leaning over here hence the horizon issues.
Looking Right down the ridge.
Close into the gorge
This is the road the bus tour takes getting into the gorge. They have to travel in the bus for fifty kms before they reach the National Park
To think that it’s 300 Metres deep.
Now these are the Bungle Bungles. Dome shapes with different colour layers of sandstone.
They don’t look high from this distance.
Dried up river bed running around the Bungles.
This one really gives you the aspect how high they are. Way down in the river bed below people were in there camping and they just looked like little dots in the sand. I didn’t quite capture them in my photo.
These are really amazing all the swells of different colours.
The domes form an enclosed circle where the farmers used to herd their cattle into.
Try and imagine how high these Bungles are up to 300mts.
They go on and on.
Captain Ged and co pilot did a good job.
That’s it now turned around and heading back to camp.
This is we’re we are camping at the Bungle Bungle Caravan Park. In the middle of nowhere.
Combing down.
Made it, back on the ground. phew!!
It’s quite hard case when we had to check in at the office in the camp after our briefing we were told to go and wait in the departure lounge. Heli in background where we took of from just beside the camp ground.
We had just had a beer beside our van after our great experience.
Campers sitting around the fire pit after their big day on the bus going into the Bungles or doing the helicopter flight over them.
