This is a good reason to walk slowly and speak quietly!! A tunnel collapse reveals the outside world and when you look out from below there are hundreds of bats amongst the trees above.
Here's Sam inside the tunnel with torch to see where we are going. With all lights out it is pitch black, and with the carnivorous bats......kinda' creepy!
We left Windjana Gorge and headed inland to Tunnel Creek. This area is fascinating because of the huge caves inside the tiny entrance!! There are permanant pools of water inside and it houses four types of Australian bats including the rare Ghost bat which is a carnivorous bat that feeds on small mammals etc.
The colours of these rugged rocky areas are quite striking...
Joey & Sam are standing at the entrance into the gorge. It opens out into the pool and rock face like on the next photo....
Southeast of Derby along the Gibb River Road is the turn-off to Windjana Gorge where freshwater crocodiles are basking on the sand flats. Quite used to people they won't get hostile unless people get to close when they are nesting.
We headed back east from Broome to Derby. Just outside of Derby there is this Boab Prison Tree where kidnappers would secure people they had captured for use as pearl divers!! Not a nice history. We had a night in Derby which proved to be quite warm. At 6.00pm it was still 38 degrees - time to move on!!
This is a good reason to walk slowly and speak quietly!! A tunnel collapse reveals the outside world and when you look out from below there are hundreds of bats amongst the trees above.
Here's Sam inside the tunnel with torch to see where we are going. With all lights out it is pitch black, and with the carnivorous bats......kinda' creepy!
We left Windjana Gorge and headed inland to Tunnel Creek. This area is fascinating because of the huge caves inside the tiny entrance!! There are permanant pools of water inside and it houses four types of Australian bats including the rare Ghost bat which is a carnivorous bat that feeds on small mammals etc.
The colours of these rugged rocky areas are quite striking...
Joey & Sam are standing at the entrance into the gorge. It opens out into the pool and rock face like on the next photo....
Southeast of Derby along the Gibb River Road is the turn-off to Windjana Gorge where freshwater crocodiles are basking on the sand flats. Quite used to people they won't get hostile unless people get to close when they are nesting.
We headed back east from Broome to Derby. Just outside of Derby there is this Boab Prison Tree where kidnappers would secure people they had captured for use as pearl divers!! Not a nice history. We had a night in Derby which proved to be quite warm. At 6.00pm it was still 38 degrees - time to move on!!
No comments:
Post a Comment