We walked the 'Domes' and 'Cathedral Gorge' and were amazed by new scenery at every turn. When we got to Cathedral Gorge there were a number of other people there but they slowly drifted off. When there were about half a dozen people left I convinced Alyssa to sing the song 'Somewhere over the Rainbow.' The acoustics in the gorge are fantastic, it's like a natural amphitheatre. You may remember the gorge from the Qantas ad in which the Australian Childrens Choir were singing 'Still call Australia home.' At the end the people that were left in the gorge gave her a round of applause. Later in the day we saw them again and they told her she would be famous, it must have sounded good. In the end we were the only people there and Alyssa sang it again, without an audience.
Anyway after that walk we headed back to camp for a quick snack before driving up to Echidna Chasm. The walk into the Chasm starts on a rocky creek bed before entering a narrow gorge. The gorge is 180 metres tall and made up of conglomerate, it slowly narrows and at one point it is about 800mm wide at the top. Obviously it doesn't let a whole lot if light into it, so good photos were pretty hard to achieve. Again we managed to have the chasm all to ourselves for 5 minutes or so, we are very lucky but it is late in the season. We visited a few lookouts on the way back to camp.
Once back at camp we had cold showers to cool off in the stifling heat.
At sunset we went up to a sunset viewing area with Dave and Linda and enjoyed a beverage or two with some snacks. The pictures aren't very good, there was too much foreground.
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