Watarrka (Kings Canyon) is amazing. Honey pot domes, with a set of gorges, a permanent waterhole, lush trees; it must have been a real oasis for the first Australians. It was a cool ridge top walk.
This place is very beautiful. We can recommend the walk thoroughly.
How dumb is it to climb here? This dumb!
Guy and bub climbing almost on top of the don't climb sign.
This area used to be at the bottom of a massive inland sea. I think it was massive instability that pushed the land up. Now the sea's ripples are visible after weathering. It's several hundred metres above sea level now though...
Only 45 million years ago, Australia broke away from Antarctica and started moving north. The temperature at the south pole was higher than today. Forests of pines, cycads, and ferns abounded. In the last 20 million years, Australia became drier, but these plants live on in little oases like Watarrka.
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