THURSDAY 22.08.2013: Walked into the Bungle Bungle Caravan Park Office to register and there on the notice board were two vacancies for a half hour afternoon flight over The Bungle Bungle Range in a fixed wing aircraft - we booked them.
Let us begin with the aircraft - there were 6 passengers, plus the pilot. Oh, forgot the 3 large boulders placed in the nose to obviously counter the tail weight! We were asked to pour ourselves in one by one and it cannot be explained what it is like to try and squeeze each of your body parts past seats, people and fixed structures! Finally in place we headed for The Bungle Bungle Range which is renowned for its' striking sandstone domes, striped with orange and grey bands. Erosion by creeks, rivers and weathering in the past 20 million years has carved out these domes, along with spectacular chasms and gorges. Purnululu is the name given to the sandstone area by Aboriginal people and covers almost 240,000 hectares. The Bungle Bungle Range has been a tourist destination since 1983 and was granted World Heritage status in 2003.
Special mention must be made of this poor man in the white singlet seated next to the pilot. He had been used for leverage by passengers entering and exiting the plane and by the end of the flight had to be surgically extracted from the dashboard!
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