Mt Augustus 22nd to the 24th

We arrived at Mt Augustus late afternoon ( of course we had fun exploring on the way)

There is only one place to stay out here so guess what that is where we headed. The caravan park has fuel so we filled up with diesel which was pretty reasonable ($1.85) we paid more on the main Hwy. Some parts of the camp ground have nice grass sites and all have access to a permanent flock of Galahs. They are noisy and funny we only stayed 2 nights so we enjoyed them however I imagine if you were there for longer you could do with a break from their out of tone singing.

Mt Augustus is Huge. It claims to the biggest rock in the world. There are all sorts of debates about this so I will let you do your own homework. That said it is bigger than Uluru but Uluru is a Monolith and Mt Augustus is Monocline so you cant compare Apples with Apples here.

Maya and I rose early the next morning to catch the sunrise on this huge rock and it was glowing.  

It was hot out there so it was decided not to do the summit walk as the temp was up to 43 degrees and the reflected heat off the rocks can add between 5 and 10 degrees and that is just not fun and if fact is down right dangerous to do the summit in those conditions and it is signed everywhere that people have died attempting this walk in the heat,

 There are plenty of lovely walks around the base.

There is a loop road that is about 50kms long that does a full 360 of the rock and it has various walks. We did most of the shorter walks and saw Aboriginal art and some amazing rock formations and the desert survivors that find a water source and make their home there.

Massive River red gum (this is one tree)

Gorgeous bug look at the pattern

Desert Blooms

Long nosed lizard

Zebra Finch

Art work which is engraved into the rock face

Heaps of art works in this Gallery

The Kids made friends with one of the kids from the station her name was Maddi and they spent some time doing outback station stuff with her and the dog patch.

Maddi's parents had been kicked off their sheep station in Kalbarri by a mining company which left them broke and homeless. So they are doing 12 months work at Mt Augustus. 

We set off in the morning for the coast.

Feature creatures

 Jim and Merv taking a siesta