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Go Camping Fishing and 4WD Adventures : Go Camping Fishing and 4WD Adventures 106
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as well as purchasing souvenirs and cold drinks. At Purnululu you can enjoy a wilderness experience, bush camping, walking, photography and nature observation and I recommend at least a three or four day visit. There are two camping grounds, Kurrajong in the north and Walardi in the south. Both offer shady non-powered campsites, basic bush toilets, untreated water, and a separate generator use camp. Campsites cannot be reserved and we found arriving mid morning allowed us to find a shady campsite at Kurrajong. A commercial safari style tented camp is located at Bellburn, not far from the airstrip. Alternatively you can stay at the Bungle Bungle Caravan Park located just off the highway, where they offer safari tents, powered and non-powered caravan and tent sites, as well as helicopter flights and tours into Purnululu. Twenty million years of weathering have produced Purnululu’s banded beehive sandstone structures which are claimed to be the world’s most outstanding example of cone karst formation in sandstone. They owe Clockwise from bottom left: Dwar fed by the towering cavern of Cathedral Gorge | Trees and palms growing within Echidna Chasm | At the end of the day visitors gather at Kungkalanayi Lookout to enjoy the sunset and the 360 degree panoramic views | Driving into Purnululu is via a 4WD only track | Close up of a dome rock face created by 20 million years of weathering and several interacting phenomena. The crust helps stabilise and protect the fragile sandstone towers | Silverleaf Grevillea – Grevillea refracta 58 | GO CAMPING, FISHING & 4WD ADVENTURES 56-61 - Purnulu.indd 58 2/12/16 1:43 pm
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