Kings Canyon
Posted by Melissa on | July 29, 2008
We leave Yulara for another amazing place. Kings Canyon is located about 260 kilometres from Yulara (by road), and is a massive crack that grew and grew and is now deep and wide and long. We follow a trail from the car park at the bottom up its steep side to the top to look back at Kings Creek and the toy cars below. Then walk the canyon rim, tip-toeing to its edge to peer down, crossing narrow bridges across precipices to lookouts and views along the canyon’s length, and clambering down steep steps to a waterhole and the curious palms and bird life of the ‘Garden of Eden’. In eight short kilometres we are in cool green, squint against bright light reflected off pale rock, see ripples caught in the bed rock of what was an ancient lake, and stubborn, stubby vegetation that grows out of dry rock.
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