View from the top of Temple Gorge Escarpment in the Kennedy Range (Mundatharrda in the local language group), looking out across the wide gently rolling plains of the Lyons River. Several scrambles up the gorges, rock pools with water according to the season. The colours of the rock vary from yellow ochre to deep iron oxide red, iron blue and white quartz. Ancient rock “bubbles” scattered around – stratified in different shades when the molten rock cooled about 300 million years ago. The cool gorges attract various wildlife, sit still beside a rock pool for a while and the local birds become brave enough to come close to drink.
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