Bungle Bungle

This Panoramic scene hung in the Convention Centre, we went into the City to visit an Exhibition held there. 
One day we will travel to the Kimberley Region to see this amazing Range for ourselves, they have always fascinated me whenever i see a photograph of them.
(a little info, from wikipedia)
 The range, though only 100 km from the main highway, was only "discovered" by a film team in 1983.
The pastoralists in the area had known about them for longer, but they sure had other things to worry about in this harsh country. Only when a national television documentary crew turned its cameras onto the astounding orange domes did the world take note.
The WA government recognised the botanical importance of the area and also its significance to the traditional inhabitants. Purnululu National Park was established in 1987. It skyrocketed to world fame in no time at all. In 2003 Purnululu NP was inscribed as a World Heritage Area, thanks to its outstanding geological value and its incredible natural beauty.

The sandstone formation of the Bungle Bungle ranges is estimated to be 350 million years old, give or take a few millions.
Like the reefs at the Geikie and Windjana gorges the range was formed during the Devonian period. But the Bungle Bungle range isn't part of a r It is the sediment of an old river bed. The sediment was laid down in layers, compressed into sandstone and eventually lifted up to form a mountain range.
Originally it was all one big block, with joints and weak areas as a result of the movement. Weathering caused more cracks and the edges wore away in the millions of years of torrential wet season rains, winds, combined with alternating winter freezes and 50 plus degree heat in summer.

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