Criss-crossing the Kimberley

First activity the next morning was a helo flight. Bellburn (BXF/YBEB) is the park airstrip, a short distance from Savannah Lodge.

Don’t visit the Bungle Bungle without doing a helo flight over it! (Tip: fly early in the morning to get the best sun angle on the domes.)

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Let’s rock ‘n roll. Forget doors.

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Back to the lodge for lunch, then an afternoon excursion to Echidna chasm. I’ve been to the Bungle Bungle a few times but never previously got to Echidna Chasm, so I was looking forward to this. I was not to be disappointed.

The geomorphology of the Bungle Bungle bears a remarkable similarity to Uluru/Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta/The Olgas. Like Kata Tjuta, Echidna chasm is cut into a very coarse rock-fragment sedimentary conglomerate; like Uluru the ‘beehive’ domes of the Bungle Bungle are sandstone.

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The riverbed walking trail into Echidna Chasm is strewn with rounded rocks.

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Echidna Chasm is noted for its 200m high walls (greater than Kata Tjuta) and the abundance of Livistona palms.

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Bower bird’s bower.

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