Thierings on Tour

Today was an early start as we heard the road into Purnululu was a rough one, so we were up and out by 7.30am (which is early for our slow lot!). 

The road really was treacherous, the 53kms to get into the park were going to take 2 hours as there were corrugations, rocks and turns every couple of hundred metres, which meant that you just couldn’t get any speed up. It was exhausting on Chris… once we got into the park it was another 30 minutes to the walking tracks.

Our first stop in the park was the Southern Side, which includes the Domes and also Cathedral Gorge. The Domes are such unique formations, sticking out like beehives and they look so different up close and from far away. It was really special to walk through them and be able to see them from so many different angles.

The Domes walk led to a little gorge at the end, which had some water left from the wet season and cool trees and greenery growing in the rocks.

From there it was onto Cathedral Gorge, which included a short walk and some climbing until we reached the magnificent gorge. Pictures just don’t give any indication of the scale of this place – the walks of the gorge would have to be at least 200m high. The rock faces have such beautiful textures and colours and most importantly for the girls, the echo was impressive! So much so that on our way out the people coming in said they had heard the girls testing of the echo from about 500m away 🫣
But they had fun and it was a beautiful place to visit!

On our way to the North of the park we stopped at Elephant Rock, Izzy in particular loved this.

The North has Echidna Chasm and while we didn’t get there for the optimal sun position, it was still a stunning view. I was proud of the girls remembering the previous chasm in the West MacDonnell ranges and how these form. We were able to walk quite a bit further into this one and again the scale and size is just not there in the photos.

We really enjoyed exploring Purnululu and it was special to take the girls to a place that Chris and I loved on our last trip.

The road back seemed even worse than on the way there, but I think that was mainly due to the fact that everyone was exhausted. So it was a quick dinner and off to bed for our dust-covered cherubs. We were all looking forward to a shower tomorrow!

Kms travelled – 195