Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday January 24, 2009
Not so hot this morning - started out by walking down to the grocery store which is about a kilometer from where we are staying. Had some sandwiches made and then walked back to the Hotel and got the car and headed out to the West MacDonnell National Park. The MacDonnall range has a very interesting array of areas that are pushed up by volcanic action millions of years ago. They are not at all very high but are like a rough razor on edge pushed up and they go for miles on either side of Alice Springs. The areas that we visited are breaks in the range and are quite dynamic in structure and shape. The first was the Simpsons Gap and although you can usually travel through them , there has been quite a bit of rain in the week prior to our arriving and in the early part of January and in December so there is water in the gaps and gorges and the area around them have lots of green and in some cases there are flowers.
The second area was the Stanley Chasm that was named after a teacher that taught the aboriginal children back in the 1920,s and was the first white person to be taken to view the area. It is quite spectacular and the sun shining on the walls caused the wall to change color. We arrived a bit early to see the real change in color but it was quite beautiful anyway.
There are two other areas that are available to see but the road is for 4x4 only and is not paved so we could not drive in on them. They are also a bit rough. So we gave them the pass and travelled on to the Ochre Pits. This is where the local aboriginal peoples get the color for there painting and also use it for body painting for dancing and ceremonial gatherings.
Finally on to Ormiston gorge, and a short walk to see the area. There is a pool there that one could swim in and people do but the water was just to dirty looking for me to have a dip in. So just had a walk about and took some photos.
Finally it had started to get really hot and humid because there had been a few light (very light) rain showers and the heat was worse than it has been even when it was hotter. Would rather have very dry heat with a sight breeze that humid heat.
Tomorrow we start out journey back down and over to Sydney.
The second area was the Stanley Chasm that was named after a teacher that taught the aboriginal children back in the 1920,s and was the first white person to be taken to view the area. It is quite spectacular and the sun shining on the walls caused the wall to change color. We arrived a bit early to see the real change in color but it was quite beautiful anyway.
There are two other areas that are available to see but the road is for 4x4 only and is not paved so we could not drive in on them. They are also a bit rough. So we gave them the pass and travelled on to the Ochre Pits. This is where the local aboriginal peoples get the color for there painting and also use it for body painting for dancing and ceremonial gatherings.
Finally on to Ormiston gorge, and a short walk to see the area. There is a pool there that one could swim in and people do but the water was just to dirty looking for me to have a dip in. So just had a walk about and took some photos.
Finally it had started to get really hot and humid because there had been a few light (very light) rain showers and the heat was worse than it has been even when it was hotter. Would rather have very dry heat with a sight breeze that humid heat.
Tomorrow we start out journey back down and over to Sydney.
Friday, January 23, 2009
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