After a return visit to Kununurra, we headed south about two hundred and fifty kilometres to the Spring Creek Free Camping Rest Stop which is opposite the turnoff to Purnululu National Park wherein lie the world-renowned Bungle Bungles.
The Purnululu National Park Visitors Centre is reached after transgressing fifty-three kilometres of grueling, rocky and corrugated road and more than a dozen creek crossings. This journey takes almost two hours.
After registering at the Visitors’ Centre, another forty-five minutes of driving along the atrocious track brought us to a picnic area and some of the famous attractions of the park.
After a cup of tea and blessed with a beautiful warm sunny day we headed off to explore.
Our first walk to “the Domes”.
Punululu is an aboriginal word meaning “sandstone”
Until the early 1980s only the local indigenous people and local stockmen knew of the existence of the Bungle Bungles.
The Bungle Bungles became famous after being spotted by an ariel film crew in 1983.
During the wet season the many small creeks can become torrents of water.
The Catherdal George is a very cool place in more ways than one.
As well as being a spectacular sight, the acoustics are also amazing inside Cathedral Gorge.
Dotted around the park, termite mounds add an interesting aspect. The mounds, made of a combination of soil, termite saliva and dung, take on the color of the underlying soil.
The Bungle Bungle Range is composed of Devonian-age quartz sandstone which eroded over a period of 20 million years into the series of beehive-shaped towers or cone.
More than 600 plant species have been recorded in Purnululu National Park World Heritage Area, some of which are unique to the park.
Purnululu National Park was inscribed in 2003 under natural World Heritage for containing areas of incredible natural beauty and for its outstanding geological value.
The UNESCO World Heritage Listed area for Purnululu National Park covers and are of about 240,000 hectares.
A photographer dream, the colours and hue of the Bungle Bungles change throughout the day with the movement of the sun.
After a couple of hours exploring, then enjoying our lunch, we braced ourselves for another two hours of shake, rattle and rock on the rough corrugated track back to the Great Northern Highway.
Just a few minutes up the road from our campground was an old Ord River crossing, providing a lovely spot for a refreshing drip after our big day.
Jack and Mallie - All around Australia! 
It is certainly an amazing environment. Such beauty and forever changing colours of the rocks. the gorges are just amazing, well worth the torrid driving to get there. I have made note of the size of your feet Jack, when swimming . (nice picture) When you get to Broome, you must visit the Horizontal falls mate. I guarantee you & Mallee will have a fantastic day. Cheers mate.
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Haha, you can buy me a pair of runners for Christmas, thx mate! Absolute natural wonder not to be missed, for sure. Will check out Horizontal Fall – thx.
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