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Saturday Oct 20, 2018 #
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Had come here with the intention of doing the Ormiston Pound walk early this morning but knees didn't enjoy all the rockhopping yesterday, so instead G & I did the shorter Ghost Gum walk up to the lookout and back down along the creek, admiring the red glow of the morning sun on the gorge walls and grateful for the lack of bikinis on the beach this morning.
After breakfast (watching spinifex pigeons all around the campsite, and even a spotted bower-bird although I couldn't spot his bower) we drove further west on the now-sealed loop around to Hermannsburg and our curiosity was piqued by information signs saying that Gosse Bluff is not just a range of hills but an enormous crater caused by a comet crashing into Earth 142 million years ago - or alternately, by an aboriginal baby crashing to earth during Dreamtime, and its parents the morning and evening star are still looking for it - so yeah, that was a worthwhile detour because you can drive right into the centre of the 5km crater and walk up to a lookout completely encircled by hills in a 20km ring.
Made it back to the big smoke in time for the birthday boy to go to the Road Transport Hall Of Fame, AKA where trucks go to die. Let's just say he found it more interesting than I did! Early dinner at the Italian restaurant was finished in time to be watching the sunset from Anzac Hill for our last night in Alice :)
After breakfast (watching spinifex pigeons all around the campsite, and even a spotted bower-bird although I couldn't spot his bower) we drove further west on the now-sealed loop around to Hermannsburg and our curiosity was piqued by information signs saying that Gosse Bluff is not just a range of hills but an enormous crater caused by a comet crashing into Earth 142 million years ago - or alternately, by an aboriginal baby crashing to earth during Dreamtime, and its parents the morning and evening star are still looking for it - so yeah, that was a worthwhile detour because you can drive right into the centre of the 5km crater and walk up to a lookout completely encircled by hills in a 20km ring.
Made it back to the big smoke in time for the birthday boy to go to the Road Transport Hall Of Fame, AKA where trucks go to die. Let's just say he found it more interesting than I did! Early dinner at the Italian restaurant was finished in time to be watching the sunset from Anzac Hill for our last night in Alice :)