Mirima

Mirima National Park, described as a miniature of the Bungle Bungle National Park, is situated adjacent to the industrial area of Kununurra. Despite being the last place you would expect to find a national park it offers a delightful walk over elevated platforms and excellent views in all directions, provided you don’t look to closely at the industrial area. Mirima is in fact part of the same Devonian reef as most of the national parks in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Geikie Gorge National Park, Tunnel Creek National Park and Windjana Gorge National Park are also part of the Australian landmass that was submerged by a tropical sea about 350 million years ago. At 350 million years old the reef pre-dates dinosaurs and was part of a 1000 kilometre long ancient barrier reef. The area is rich in fossils of the extinct bony-plated fish called placoderms lending more weight to the geological explanation. I know, exciting stuff right?

Well that’s enough geology for one day. I’m off to town to be regaled with tall tales of how the parts didn’t turn up for the car and that they will be here sometime before Wednesday next week and so forth.

Some time later…………..

Well here I am back from town and shock horror the car is being repaired as I type and will most likely be finished by close of business today. We will thus wise be, very shortly, off to wherever we were going before we stopped going there. All that remains to be done now is to remember where we were going.

PS. Jen discovered more on the low age of the R.I.P.ers at the cemetery. A long time local explained that those who don’t die from car accidents and suicide (the main cause of death up to about twenty years old) eventually get smart enough to move to cooler climes and presumably die at a ripe old age somewhere else. That’s a relief, I think.