Highway One: Bungle Bungles-Purnululu
The Bungle Bungles, or Purnululu wasn’t discovered until 1983, when airborne treasure-seekers, in the form of a documentary crew filming ‘Wonders of WA’ unearthed the spectacular striped jewellery we know as the Bungle Bungles.
These fragile formations (a landform found in just a few spots in the world) were created as water eroded the Bungle Bungle Range over the past 20 million years – a relative twinkle in the earth’s geological eye. From the air or from a distance some look like little pyramids or the turrets of ancient castles.
Catherine Lawson and David Bristow, along with baby Maya, completed a lap of Highway One, the road that circles Australia.
- Purnululu: a fragile icon
- Guide to Purnululu/Bungle Bungles
- Hiking the Purnululu Gorge
See more vidoe blogs of the journey around Highway One.
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