We made our way back to Kununurra and replenished the food and fuel supplies (having filled up with as much water as we could at Lake Argyle). We caught up with some friends at the wonderful library, before dragging the kids back into the car and rolling out of town. It was well after lunch by the time we got away, and we camped near the Bow River, far enough off the road to feel like we were alone in the world. I feared being on the main highway we would be kept up all night with road trains rolling on through, but only one truck was to disturb our peace.
Bow River campsite
Having made such a great run down the road the previous day, we took a while to get going in the morning. Making the most of unexpected phone signal, we even managed to connect via Skype to North America. The joys of modern technology - you have to try really hard now to get away from it all!
We let some air out of the tyres at the turn off to our campsite. It was some 50km off the main road along a corrugated and rough track to the entrance of the Purnululu National Park. The drive in was incredibly picturesque as we approached the Osmand Ranges, but the real highlight was coming through a small pass and seeing the Bungle Bungle Range open up before us.
An ancient riverbed, the Bungle Bungle Range is some 360 million years old. The river system that deposited the huge conglomerates and sandstone beds up to a kilometre thick in places eroded an absolutely massive mountain range. The bones of the Osmand Ranges is all that is left of the older mountains, but in the last 20 million years or so, erosion has finally exposed the old river bed that is the Bungle Bungles and carved it into its captivating shapes.
