Another cold wake up call this morning at minus 0.1 degrees. We never saw the mercury exceed 20 degrees all day.
Today, we piled into our car and took a day trip to the west of here out to Ormiston Gorge. You might think that all these gorges start looking the same after a while but not to me. They are obviously all different and each hold their own in 'wow' factor. Ormiston is no exception to that. This gorge is laden with ghost gums growing out of the rock walls which, as a visual spectacle, goes off in its own unique way. We took a 2.5 km walk which takes you around the top with views down the gorge where you can take in the enormity of it. Then we made our way down into the creek bed where you follow it back to the start point. It took us a little short of 2 hrs. Had a picnic lunch and moved on. We dropped into Ellery Creek on the way back along Namatjira Drive.
This is a pretty place too. Only a 5 minute walk here to get to the water's edge. There's not a lot of water in all the creeks around these parts but that's to be expected I guess in the dry season. All the tourist information documentation warn swimmers of extremely cold water and hypothermia. They're on the money there - 'freeze a jolly good fellow'.
The drive out this way keeps you close to West MacDonnell ranges all the way so makes for a scenic drive.
Cool night closing in so time to snuggle into a warm bed.
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