This hike is a long climb that leads to the crest of the Heavitree Range, which is then followed, for several hours, with sweeping views of the surrounding plains and ridges.
Lovely desert flower...
The bottom of the sea....on a mountain top! These rocks are ripples from an old sea bed.
An inland sea did exist during Australia's geological history. In this extensive, shallow sea, a lot of material was deposited and sequentially compressed into very think layers of sedimentary rock. These were then raised into mountain ranges and eroded away agin to form more rock in the area of the inland sea. This process happened several times over. The olders rocks are in the northern MacDonnell Ranges, with formations becoming younger to the south. Some of these rocks are month the oldest on Earth.
Counts Point
Counts Point provides incrediable views, and, as usual, these pictures do not do it justice. This has a magnificient view of the mountains at the western end of the West MacDonnell Ranges. This provides a fantastic view to the north-west looking along a straight valley. At the end of the valley is Mt Sonder, to its right, in the distance, is the highest peak in Australian's Northern Territory, Mt Zeil, and the high wall of rock on the right is Mt Giles.
Green beans...
The Birth of Emu
Of the three sisters who came down from the stars of Orion's Belt, two returned and one was obliged to stay on earth and play the role of Tya (the earth spirit). Because the emu is a lfightless bird, it symbolizes the third sister's being a prisoner on earth. But the emu is a dowdy, ill mannered and ill-tempered creatur, no t the best choice for the incarnation of the ultimate female.
The first thing Enu created was the Tnatanja Pole, it was covered in down and reached up to the stars. But, she left it in the care of Termite Women, whereupon it was given to breaking and snapping where she had eaten into it. It was this constant falling and erection that ultimately shaped the Australian landscape.
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