Time to visit another World Heritage Area – this time the Purnululu National Park, also known as the Bungle Bungles. The National Park covers an area of almost 240,000 hectares, of which the impressive Bungle Bungle Range and its familiar banded sandstone domes occupy a footprint of 45,000 hectares.

The National Park is accessed by an unsealed road and not designed for caravans! We initially planned on spending a night at the camp site just off the main road then heading into the Bungles the following day. Unfortunately that plan was totally foiled as we arrived at the campground to find they were taking no bookings due to covid amongst the staff. They would however offer van storage so we make a quick plan to abandon the van in storage at the caravan park and take the swags into the park. There are two campgrounds in the National Park and we managed to book two nights so we could make the most of the drive in. It doesn’t really seem to matter how many nights we re heading off with the swags for – it’s still a logistical effort to pack the things we need to be self sufficient away from the van.

Two hours after leaving the van at the camp ground, we had covered 53km into the park and found the campground. Swags set up and dinner on the go, the kids quickly found a bunch of new friends to play with and had a ball running around with torches at night.

Day one, we set off to explore the southern end of the National Park. This area is home to the classic domes you see in all images of the Bungle Bungles. They really are impressive and I have to wonder how the layers of sandstone and Cyanobacteria are so uniform. They really do look like massive beehives and the whole landscape makes you feel so small.

We visited Cathedral Gorge and hung around long enough to get a rare moment of the gorge to ourselves.

Our final walk of the day took us to the Picaninny Creek Look Out. The Park is closed in the wet season but it would be amazing to see this place with the water flowing through it.

After a big day of Bungle action, we headed back to camp for some afternoon down time and an early night.

Day two, we packed up the swags and set off for the northern end of the park. The landscape was totally different, with the sandstone domes of the southern area replaced by huge towering cliffs. We took a relatively short walk at Mini Palms where you see the Livistona Palms growing out of the cliffs – pretty impressive.

Our final walk of the day took us into Echidna Chasm. Arriving pretty much at mid day, we were treated to some pretty amazing light shows as the sun shone down through the chasm.

The Bungles is one of those places I have had on the ‘to do’ list for a long time and it totally lives up to expectations… amazing place. Getting near the end of our time in WA and this has been an incredible place to add to the list of our favourite places in WA.