Mungo National Park

[radar]

Hi,

I was visiting Mungo National Park a couple of weeks back. I'm finally getting to process my images after having to sit on a jury in court most of last week. Anyways, Mungo Nat. Park is an amazing place to visit. The scenery, wildlife, history are all amazing. No wonder it is a World Heritage Area.

It is a long way from Newcastle, about 1200kms but the Subaru Outback performed really well. It probably about as late in Spring as I would want to be there as it was already starting to get pretty hot on some of the days. In total, I spent 6 days there. There would still be plenty for me to do there if I was back in winter and then you can pretty explore the whole day. As it is, I usually took a break in the hot of the day.

The park itself is about 100km north of Mildura, most of that on unsealed roads. I went from Balranald, the road is meant to be better as it is not as much travelled.

As you can see, things are flat over there:



One of the big attractions of the park are the Walls of China. It is these amazing formations on the lunette of Lake Mungo. Lake Mungo has been dry for the last 12,000 years. Wind and rain has formed these formations on the eastern side of the lake. The formations just come alive at sunset.



For such a dry place, there are also still lots of birds, mammals and reptiles. Here is a rainbow bee-eater.



A bit of info on Mungo can be found here.

C&C much appreciated on these.

cheers,

André
(PS: flies were getting pretty bad but you do get used to them)
Edit: fix the link

[Onyx]

Wow, wow and wow. Especially #2 - the sunset makes it magical. I'm definitely putting Mungo on my 'must visit' list.

[big pix]

very very nice........ but your link takes you to another pix of the bee eater

[sheepie]

Wonderful - especially the Walls of China shot.

This is a place that is close to the top of my list of things to see, so hopefully I'll get down there in the next year or so - am really looking forward to seeing some more of your shots from the area

[radar]

Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. I'll be processing more this week so I should have some other good ones. The dunes system there is also pretty spectacular at sunrise.

There were still some wildflowers around during my visit, so sometimes the contrast of the flowers and the sand works very nicely.

As for Mungo Nat Park, very highly recommended. You have to camp there for at least a couple days to do it justice.

Bernie, link should be fixed.


Cheers,

André

[robert]

Well put together post- its good to get a bit of extra info. I've wanted to go there for ages but wasnt sure if you could spend more than a sunset there- glad to hear it was so interesting.

#2 is superb, beautiful foreground lines.

Robert

[radar]

Thanks Robert,

yes you can certainly spend more then the one day there. For example, the second photo was like that for only one of the sunsets that I was there for. I think I did 4 sunsets and they were all slightly different. One of them wasn't all that impressive as the clouds were low in the west blocking that nice golden colour. In summer, there are a few tour companies that run sunset tours from Mildura but that is only for the one afternoon. If you are lucky fine, but if not, it's a long way to go.

Cheers,

André

[iluxa]

I really like the second one. Very good composition and colours.

Looking forward to seeing your other photos from Mungo. I remember my trip to Mungo about 1.5 years ago - it was just a fantastic place for photographers!

[CraigVTR]

Andre
I went to Mungo about 20 years ago and really enjoyed the couple of days I had there. Will have to dig out some prints and slides to see if I got any decent shots. #1 great sense of isolation. #2 the colours are starting to come out. #3 great shot.

Craig