We set off early this morning (7.00 a.m.) with "Bushie" our driver/guide at the helm in a solid 4 wheel drive bus. We traversed Mabel Downs Cattle Station on what was one of the roughest roads imaginable - seemingly worse than the Gibb River Road. Anyway we made it to the parking area at the base of the Bungle Bungles after some 1 1/2 hours of bouncing around in the vehicle. Once there we set out on foot firstly to Picaninny Creek Lookout followed by walking to Cathedral Gorge after a lovely morning tea and then past the dome karst sandstone formations on the way back to the bus. It was all breathtakingly beautiful and also very, very hot. All of this was followed by a delicious pita bread luncheon which went down well. We had an issue at lunchtime in that the bus had developed a flat tire and so while most of us ate, the driver and with some of the men on the tour assisting, set about changing the tyre for the spare. Once mobile again we then drove to Echidna Chasm where we enjoyed a shorter but also very beautiful walk. And then it was another two hour rough drive back to our starting point for the day which was testing but well worth it for what was a wonderful tour all round. On top of which we also had a delicious barbecue meal cooked for us at 6 p.m. During the day we befriended two interesting couples, a French dentist and her male French partner a veterinarian andan Australian couple who had their own company whose purpose was for medical transfers from overseas to Australia by aircraft. As you can imagine the evening was spent in interesting conversation over a beer and glasses of wine.
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