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Published: April 16th 2008
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King’s Canyon
Kings Canyon Rim Walk http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/watarrka.html
We woke up relatively early. The fun part was that we didn’t have to pack everything up and load the troopies this morning. We were going to come back to pack up after the hike. It was a cool morning and I was glad I had a long sleeve shirt to wear.
The toughest part of the Kings Canyon Rim walk was the first 30 minutes. In this time we hike vertically for what seemed like forever to get to the rim of King’s Canyon. Once we got to the top the view was amazing. I really enjoyed this walk because it wasn’t very hot because of the cloud cover and it was very flat. The nice thing about it being a relatively flat walk was that I was able to look up from where I was walking and see the scenery.
About every 10 minutes of walking we stopped to see another view over the edge of the cliff. We practiced good cliff safety by staying at least a body length back from the edge of the cliff unless we were lying on our bellies. I did crawl to
the edge a couple of times but it was very scary to look out. I was really entrigued by how the canyon was formed. The canyon was created by water an then the rock expanding and contracting which left one side of it smooth with a circular pattern on it. The other side eroded away until the canyon was very wide across.
Half way around the canyon we walked down a lot of stairs to the Garden of Eden. It had a refreshing waterhole and beautiful vegetation. We stopped to take pictures and eat apples in the Garden of Eden. Hahaha!
Then we hiked up to the top again and started walking some more. When we were almost done with the walk we stopped at a place and Lyndon sat down on the edge (not practicing good cliff safety). Then he yelped Ahhh! and fell down off the edge. Of course I noticed that his head never slipped below the edge of the cliff. I was still freaked out for half a second until I heard him laughing and myself saying NOT FUNNY LYNDON! He remembered this cliff from last year and the small ledge below that you
couldn’t see. Anyways it was a little funny but I wouldn’t admit it because I was actually scared a bit by it.
The hike down at the end of the rim walk was much easier than getting up there. Then we headed back to our campsite and packed up our stuff.
The troopies were supposed to go to the mechanic while we were on the Rim Walk but the mechanic was on a day off. Oh well we love our broken troopies. It’s funny how each of them have their own problems. Black Thunder - Mazz’s first troopie - has trouble with the gauges, as in they don’t work. The fuel gages are wacky and quickly drop to zero and then back up to full all the time. And the speedometer often reads zero while we are definitely going at least 80kph. The Cam-mobile -Cam’s first troopie - was the one that didn’t have the right fuel in the sub tank so it ran out of gas. The food troopie - Lyndon’s first troopie - had problems with shuddering. There were times when it dropped would just start to shake uncontrollably on the road so Lyndon had to
slow down until it stopped. Oh we love the troopies. All good times!
That night we stayed at another desert camp. This camp was just driving off the side of the road. We had fun but got very dirty. The red dirt got on everything and all over us. We had a campfire after dinner and became better friends. Greeno - one of the guys - showed us that he could play almost any song on his mouth. He started with the 1812 overture and then took requests. He said it was a tradition in his family for years. His father taught him and his father’s father taught him. He created the sounds by slapping his cheeks and changing the size of his mouth. We were all awestruck and enjoyed the rest of the good times getting to know each other.
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