We're a bit sad to leave El Questro and shortly after, the Gibb river road too. We join the Great Northern highway and head south between the Durock and Carrboyd moutain ranges towards the Purnululu or Bungle bungle National Park. Civilisation in the form of a bitumised road is short lived as we hit the 53 kilometre road into the park. A notorious road that takes about 2 hours to drive due to it being essentially a very rough track. Now sitting on a bus for hours is relatively lazy until you hit these rough roads when there is a considerable amount of muscle tensing is required to prevent oneself being thrown about like a sack of potatoes. Plus it's hard to read and music is drowned out by the noise of the road so there's only the scenery as a welcome distraction.
We rolled out at Echidna chasm with considerable relief. A steep-sided incision in the rock- strange rock that looks like pebbles all stuck together in sand and liable to crumble at any time. It was a beautiful spot with the colours of the rock and the vegetation dramatic against another faultlessly blue sky. To see the sunset we then walked a short way up to a lookout and watched the Osmond ranges turn orange.
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