Bungles Part 2

Even though we'd gone to bed so early, it was still difficult to get out of bed at 6am as the bed was just so warm and cosy.  We got up and had a quick breakfast of cereal in cups (our picnic set doesn't include bowls) and then we were ready to do a couple of walks in the southern end of the park.  This included Cathedral Gorge which Jenny really wanted to see after watching the Qantas ads. It didn't disappoint but it was difficult to take a picture that would do it justice and impossible to get one that didn't have other people in it.  A number of people were lugging in professional looking cameras and tripods as we were coming out so they would probably find it even harder than we had to get a family free photo (another's not their own I mean).

Cathedral Gorge.

The last walk was to the Piccaninny Lookout. The walk to the lookout included walking up the dry river bed which was pretty cool.  It's all very dry right now after two wet seasons with very little rain but they are saying it should be a bumper wet season at the end of this year.   It would be great if the Department of Parks and Wildlife could set up webcams over the wet season so that we could check back and see how different it must look with all these riverbeds under water and waterfalls cascading down the beehives.

View from the lookout.

Just after this photo was taken by the self timer on Larry's camera, we walked back down to the riverbed  where Larry discovered that he had left his lens cap on a rock.  Subsequently Larry saw this same view sans Jenny when he went back the additional kilometre to retrieve the lens.  Meanwhile Jenny walked back to the carpark via the Domes Circuit walk.  Unlike the other walks which involve dry riverbeds and lots of pebble and rock, the Domes walk consists mainly of white sand that looks suspiciously like it has been carted up from Scarborough.  Luckily as the walk circuits some of the domes/beehives it was reasonably shaded but it was such a slug that by the time Jenny got back to the carpark, Larry had already arrived having hotfooted it (literally!) back to the lookout.

Well we have just done the "Bugle Bugle"s and with no injuries apart from aching legs to report it was definitely an experience to remember.   We refreshed ourselves under shade with well earned Cokes and ate our sandwiches (it was only 10am but we were hungry after all that exercise!) and tut-tutted at the people heading off on the walks with only small 600ml bottles of water.  It might only be 10am but it was hitting thirty degrees and it was hot!  After about 2 hours from the car park at Piccaninny Gorge, we arrived back at the caravan park. Some cleaning up, expander forum trip report and blog writing, resizing pictures, pumping the tyres back up and checking the car and van over and chilling out before tomorrow's drive to Fitzroy Crossing.