Today we venture back into the Murchison River gorge section of Kalbarri National Park.

Meanarra Hill Lookout with views over Kalbarri township and the Murchison River bar to the Indian Ocean.

Bill E. Goat looking forlorn – the kids were out of control.

The Murchison River estuary

The road into the gorge was lined with banksias and a range of wildflowers

Woody pear (Xylomelum sp)

Honey grevillea

Tryptomene

Murchison River Gorge

Upstream

Climbing fringed lily (Thysanotus manglesianum)

Fossil ripple marks were common in the sedimentary layers

River as we near Nature’s Window

The track to Nature’s Window

One of the most photographed rock structures in Australia

Despite the seeming serenity, there about 50 people on the wide ledge behind me waiting in turn for a photo.

The Loop walk

Kaju Yatka – Kalbarri Sky Walk has two cantilevered platforms extending from the cliff edge – two 100m high lookouts projecting 25m and 17m beyond the rim of the Murchison Gorge.

Massive concrete blocks anchored into the bedrock have the steel bridge connected by massive plates.

View down to the Murchison River

Distorted panorama image of the Skywalk

The rocks here are 400 million years old and contain fossil tracks of giant arthropods that roamed the alluvial sediments. The model above is life size.

There were smaller creatures living then too.

Trigger plant

On the drive to Z Bend we saw an echidna.

Brown falcon perched on a banksia

Clawflower (Calothalmus)

Z Bend Lookout

Small fossil tracks

Large fossil tracks from the larger arthropod in a previous image.

We saw a different echidna on the way back

Back to Nature’s Window late in the day once the crowds had departed.

Track back to the top of the gorge

Grasstree (Xanthorrhea) near sunset time

Goodnight from Kalbarri