Mungo National Park is not easy to get to. In summer temperatures reach well over 40 degrees, which makes it an unattractive destination for most tourists. Moreover, getting to the park requires driving over 90 kilometers of unsealed road –and I am not talking about the standard gravel road, I am talking about a road made of a mixture of sand, broken slabs of concrete, rocks and small boulders. As you can imagine, speeding was not an option.
The park is part of a chain of dried-out lakes in Outback New South Wales. Lake Mungo dried up around 14,000 years ago, and today a great crescent-shaped dune, called the Walls of China, stretches along the eastern shore of the lakebed.
As you can see from the pictures, erosion has sculpted the sand and clay into dramatic formations.
Rain and wind has also uncovered ancient artefacts, stone tools and animal bones. We saw some mussel shells that were dug from the mud for food before the dry times came, about 18,000 years ago. Christ was born a mere 2000 years ago!
Quelles belles photos, surtout celle de vous deux à Noël avec des cerceaux de petite renne sur la tête! Avez-vous pris des koalas dans vos bras?
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Allô Alex!
ReplyDeleteJe ne crois pas que ce soit une bonne idée de prendre un koala dans les bras. Malgré leur air angélique, les koalas ont un mauvais tempérament et prennent un malin plaisir à mordre celui ou celle qui veulent les enlacer. Les koalas qui vivent dans les zoos, c'est une autre affaire. Toutefois, même si c'est possible de toucher les koalas captifs, je ne le ferrais pas quand même, car ce ne sont pas des animaux qui se font toucher dans leur environnement.