Sunday Morning at camp site 72
I found a cafe that serves bacon & eggs and great coffee on a Sunday morning.
There are two sections of the national park. The north which contains Kurrajong Camp and 106 sites and the south which has Walardi Camp ground which is smaller, half the size I believe.
Today we started at Stonehenge which is a Class 2 walk 520 metres. There are information posts along the track naming the various plants used by the aboriginals.
Walk Classes (1) – a short stroll on a footpath (2) short walk on a formed path (3) Guided pathway, unformed path, loose rocks (couple of kms return) (4) Guide Posts take it has it comes (advised of risks) rough terrain – longer distance (5) Same as class 4 but steeper terrain (6) Rough Natural Track, own navigation – long or overnight hikes.
The views on the way to Echidna Chasm and Osmand Lookout
Osmand Lookout Class 3 – takes you to an elevated ridge with view across to the Osmand Range.
The view from the lookout
Back at the car park, I found a great mobile coffee shop.
Everywhere you look there is something intriguing to find, nature at it’s best.
After morning tea, we started on the Echidna Chasm Class 3 walk. It is a two kilometre return walk in the 200 metre high chasm.
The walk is along a creek bed, the palm was about half way up the chasm.
You soon realize that the chasm has been formed from the original path of water 200 metres above you.
The Bungle Bungle range is made up of conglomerate rocks. View to the top
You can also see sandstone layers.
Bower Bird has decided to set up home here and the decoration is grey and white stones.
(left) entrance very narrow most of the way
There’s more around the corner
Lots of times you thought that you had come to the end and you would find a hidden pathway continuing ahead.
Long way to the top We were hoping that anything that fell was way too big to get all the way to the bottom.
(L) Back at the entrance, a different view going back out. (R) These rocks just looked like a clutch of eggs.
This little red tailed skink just popped up out of the rocks and posed for Glen.
We had wanted to go on the Mini Palms Class 4 walk but it has been closed down for safety reasons. We called into the Bloodwoods area and it is also closed from that end. We are going to do the Homestead Valley Class 4 walk and the ranger advised to walk a kilometre of the Escarpment Class 3 from Bloodwoods, as that is the best of the Escarpment walk.
This evening we walked the Kungkalanayi Lookout Class 3 which starts at our campsite for the sunset view of the Bungle Bungle range.
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