deantrekaroundoz2012: Day 92 Sunday 23rd September Spring Creek

Left our caravan at our bushcamp outside Bungle Bungles and drove the 53 kms of dirt road while our neighbors kept an eye on our van for us. After obtaining our daypass from the visitor centre we drove on another 24 kms to Cathedral Gorge at the South end of the park where we walked 1.5 kms into the gorge in what we were told later in the day was 44 degrees!!!!! The gorge was beautiful & the acoustics in this natural amphitheatere were incredible. The girls took advantage of this "stage" & tested it out, after recovering from their hot walk, as we were the only ones there at the time. After hiking out again we made a bee line for the air conditioned car and cold water which was in the engel. At the car park we talked with 2 hikers from the Netherlands who had just completed the 2.5 day hike into Piccanilly Creek!!!!! An amazing effort in this heat. We then drove 42 kms to the Northern end of the park to hike into Echidna Chasm. This hike luckily was mostly shaded which was why we chose to do it later in the day, and was quite amazing. Surrounding cliff faces stretched up approx 200 metres either side of the palm lined rocky path to a narrow gap approx 70 cm. Beautiful.... Once back at the car we drove to the visitor centre again & refueled the girls with Powerade as they were all unusually quiet, and we were worried about their hydration levels!!!!!!We drove out of the park and picked up our van after saying thanks to our neighbours. Arrived in Kunanurra at 6.30 pm.

Feeling hot, bothered and tired we decided a swim in the pool was a good idea to freshen up after our long hot day. Ava & Olivia were too tired to eat after this stage so they nibbled on some fruit whilst lying in bed!! Lucy managed a bit of dinner then asked if she could go to bed!! Whilst this was a short stay at this park, it had beautiful vistas out onto Lake Argyle Pondage where freshwater crocs frequent.