Kings Canyon

 
 
 
 

After our big walk yesterday, we woke the children at 6 a.m. to get ready and packed up for our journey to Kings Canyon. Group 1 left the site and headed out to Gosse Bluff where a crater had formed 142 million years ago when a meteor hit this place. Our drive (on rocky dirt road) took us into the centre of this huge crater where we quickly took a snap shot and were on the move again.

There is still so much that we have not seen in this area as we are restricted by time – hopefully one day we will return to this vast land and investigate more of what it has to offer.

The time then came to bring to tyres down from 40 psi to 29 psi before we hit the dust and dirt. Our slow 125km travel from between 40 km /h and 70 km/h began with us being 5th in our Group 1 convoy. We have the biggest and heaviest tow, but we still managed to eat the dust of the Prado in front.

Words cannot express the grandeur of the ranges and mountains we have travelled past over the last week. The colours are ever changing as is the vegetation and terrain (some of our photos almost capture it, but it is unbelievable in real life).

We got to the campgrounds at about 1pm and set-up the caravan. We were overjoyed that there was no damage at all internally or externally. We got a bit of dust in underneath the fridge (it needs to be vented when running during our travels), but a quick dustpan sorted that out for now.

We devoured a sandwich and then felt we were up for the Kings Canyon Rim Walk which is about 6.5km around the top of the whole canyon. Again, this was spectacular and another highlight of the trip !!! While we have seen lots of vivid coloured rocks, you seem to never tire of it. The walk is quite strenuous, but we all got through it really well and had a refreshing ice block on the way home.

Off to Yulara and Uluru tomorrow where we will stay for 2 nights (yeah) and it will be the end of the Pradopoint Get Together.