Up, up and away...
What a way to start the day and celebrate 4 weeks on the
road for me. A 40 minute helicopter flight around Purnulu. Unfortunately only
the Southern bit, but I guess the northern part doesn't look so good from the
air. Even better is that for this one, I was in the front seat next to the
pilot. What a view! Truly a highlight of the trip, and neither of us wanted it
to end.
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| Taking off in the prime viewpoint |
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| One of the 'fingers' of Piccaninny |
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| The scale is truly awesome from up here... |
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| One of the world's truly amazing sights |
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| Flying over Piccaninny Creek you start to get an idea of just how little you see whilst walking |
Unfortuantely it did, and the reality of a 380km drive
reared its ugly head. All well and good to get out of the park, the about 120km
of tarmac. Easy… Unfortunately the drive in to the crater takes you down the
Tanami Road (Gravel road that links the Kimberley with Alice Springs) for a
hundred kms before you turn off onto unmaintained, very corrugated tracks for
the final 23km to the crater. We got here just in time for sunset. I don’t hink
Jen quite belives we’ll have done a 250km detour to spend less than 10 minutes
looking at a meteor crater… oops.
Thankfully, the campsite is right by the crater, and the
lamb roast we put in the oven as we left Purnululu was ready to eat (albeit
with a bit of an explosion of Fat and juices from the covered roasting tray
thanks to the corrugations…)
Best get to bed early tonight as tomorrow is going to be a 10
hour bugger of a drive to Broome…
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