…aren’t all that deep in this case.

Murchison River, Kalbarri National Park.

A broad cross section of Tumblagooda Sandstone can be seen in this image of part of a wall of the Murchison gorge.  The river, responsible for carving the gorge, can be seen in the very bottom of the image.  Over 500 million years old, the sandstone is thought to contain some of the earliest fossilised tracks of terrestrial creatures in the world.

Layers of sandstone form the walls of the Murchison gorge.

The floodplain within the Murchison Gorge stretches out before the eye revealing a broad spectrum of ground colours and cover.

The Murchison River flows for some 650 kilometres before plunging through layers of deposited sandstone to form the Murchison Gorge, part of the Kalbarri National Park.  I’ve just spent the weekend there for the first time and I have to say it’s one of the most impresive natural parts of this country I’ve seen.  I’ll be posting quite a few photos from this region over the next few weeks and intend to return there in a month or two to explore again, in the midst of the wildflower season.

Hovea Creek hurtles across smooth polished rocks that just two months ago were stagnant pools.

John Forrest National Park

A portion of South Perth as spied from regular Perth.

There is definitely something in the third warning image which harks back to the good old Roadrunner cartoons…

Jingemia Cave – Watheroo National Park

A far from uncommon sight on the Perth skyline in recent years is that of crane towers.  Here though, one working on a building on the foreshore is draped on an evening sky against the bottle like glass of the Perth Bell Tower.