Australia 2011 - Day 6, Part 2 - Kings Canyon

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Harold Wilson

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Australia 2011
Day 6 - 3rd August - Kings Canyon (Part 2)

Then, ahead of us was a very narrow passthrough with no path.


Doesn't this look like a scene from a movie where planes or spacecraft chase each other narrow canyons?




Panorama


Without the plants this could still pass for the background of a dogfighting scene. The rocks were like miniature versions of the big rock formations in them.


Crowd at canyon wall. If I'd shouted "fire!" or "wildebeest stampede!" maybe some would've jumped.



Canyon view


Canyon panorama




Pushing someone off


Crowd. I should've brought my ME2 baseball cap - I would've been able to wear it without feeling like a douchebag.


Onward and upward


Scrub


Panorama 2


Sedimentary rock




MR jumping to his doom


Trekking across the canyon rim

There was an optional sidetrip, which we took.


Cotterills Lookout
Notice the apostrophe, prominent by its lack.


Mounds on way


Deadly gap


Cotterill's Bridge


Cotterill's Lookout


MR looking out. This was actually quite far from me


Canyon wall


Cotterill's Lookout panorama


Lush valley, in contrast to the scrub above


Valley panorama


Birds




A dead sea's ripples


Ripples


Outcrop