Our First Taste of the Outback

The weather over the last few days has been pretty cold and damp, so we weren't surprised to find that the roads within Mungo National Park were closed; they're dry-weather-only clay roads.  We woke this morning expecting to pack up and head up the Silver City Highway to Broken Hill.  On a whim, I drove around the corner to the National Parks office and checked up on the road to Mungo.  As luck would have it, they had literally minutes before reopened the road. So we jumped in the car and headed off. 



What a fantastic place to visit, well worth the 230 kms of unsealed roads on the round trip.  

The car copped a hiding from the corrugations and is plastered in mud, but it cruised along happily all day without complaining.  







Saw plenty of roos and emus in the park.

Lots of cows, sheep and feral goats on the unfenced roads on the way up and back. Had to dodge a few, mostly on the way home in the late afternoon.










We found the horizons soooo big when there are so few hills and only low malley scrub for tree cover. 

The actual lake bed is impressively large too. The road from the visitors centre across Lake Mungo to the lunette Walls of China is 10 km long! 





The Walls of China are pretty special. They have formed from sediments and sand blowing off the lake bed during dry periods.  

It was easy to spot the coloured layers from the different materials.








For all of us, the highlight was the magnificent mobile dunes.  

These were in effect the dunes that formed behind the beach of the lake.

Absolutely spectacular!