Day 4 - A morning of curvy and colourful rocks

A short walk from our camp brought us to the concrete Serpentine Dam, constructed in the 1950s to store water for a nearby resort/tourist stop. It is no longer used as the resort closed in the 1960s and all that remains of it are some concrete foundations.

Ralph and Mick in the dam. Not a lot of water at the moment.

A little further along the trail - Inarlanga Pass and it's amazingly curved rock layers

Aran and Pete on a curve smoothed by water which flows over it after rain.

Out in to the open again with big views

Natural rock walls jut up out of the ground in numerous locations. They almost look manmade (by a Mexican - almost expected to see a man in a sombrero with a donkey) but are caused by erosion of softer rocks from around layers of hard rock which have been tipped vertical by geologic orogeny activity.

 

 More ripple stone from the bottom of the sea.

By lunch time we reached the Ochre Pits.

It is illegal to touch these colourful cliffs. There is a $5000 fine if you touch them. They are sacred to the Aboriginals and have numerous ceremonial, medicinal and practical uses.

We interrupted a Cleo magazine fashion shoot.

After lunch we were driven to Glen Helen Resort, one of our camp site during the first week's camping tour. But that is the next post's story.