First stop was the Perry Sand hills at sunset to get some great pictures of the red sand of the area. I did try to slide down one on cardboard but it wasn’t steep enough – not as much fun as on snow!
We then headed out to where the Murray River and Darling River meet; in the picture you can see the dark water of the Murray and the muddy water of the Darling blending together. Both rivers are huge and the source of water for many farmers and communities from Queensland to South Australia.
We took a trip out to Mungo National Park where they have found evidence of human habitation for 50, 000 years. The area used to be a series of lakes which dried up 18,000 years ago and the remaining white sand dunes are beautiful and very much felt like holy ground. The area is very important to the Aboriginal people and you can only access certain parts with an Aboriginal guide, our guides were Robert and Ricky and they were really good. I think this was my favourite spot so far…
Access to Mungo is by road, but it is very ‘corrugated’ or just plain bumpy! It is about 110 kms from the main road and 90 of those kms were outback roads so the trip to the park is half the adventure.
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