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Published: December 24th 2005Oceania » Australia » Western Australia
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July 30th 2005

Woke up early needing a pee and then lay in my swag until everyone else was up and i could put it off no longer! I haven't managed to get my butt stung, pricked or bitten by anything yet whilst peeing so it's all good so far! :-) Left camp at 7am (!!!!!!!!) - bit different from Heading Bush when we would usually be just about ready at 10am if we were lucky. First stop was Cathedral Gorge in the Bungle Bungles, which are huge sandstone gorges and mounds (often beehive shape) approx. 350 million years old extending over a vast area. The sandstone domes are striped orange and black (orange is sandstone, black is cyanobacteria (algae)). Another impressive walk and again it was lovely and peaceful as we had the whole place to ourselves, so ... read more



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July 29th 2005

Everyone was already up and having breakfast when i finally got out of my swag. I'm the camp slob! Left camp at 8:45am after a wet wipe shower and going to the v. smelly drop pit loo at the campsite. Nice! We went on a gorgeous walk this morning to the Nganalam Rock Art caves. We were the only ones there so it was very tranquil except for the birds singing and some dusky pink galahs were flying over as we walked up to the caves. I felt really happy walking along in the early morning sunshine in such a beautiful spot. The cave paintings were really well preserved - two gollywog-type figures (ie. men with headdresses but to me they looked like gollywogs!) and a snake. There were loads of wattle trees (Aussie sporting colours ... read more






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