It was 35C at 10:00am when we got out to see a rock formation called “Nature’s Window” at Kalbarri, Western Australia - a hole carved in rock by wind and water erosion, overlooking the Murchison Gorge. As usual, Trav went bounding along over rocks, jumping on every boulder he could find, while Diana sweltered under the heat and struggled to keep up. Toward the end of the walk down to Nature’s Window, there was a rock ledge about a 18 inches wide to walk on, with a 10 foot drop off the side, whereupon you’d probably bounce once, roll off the ledge you just landed on, and plummet 100m to your death. Trav ran along the ledge, and then came back to persuade Diana to come out with him, which she did, although the perspiration running off her had more to do with stress than heat at that point. Not a big fan of the 18″ ledge, Diana made it without any problems, and we took a couple of happy snaps on the *shady* side of the formation.

There was a sign at the beginning of the walk telling people to wear good walking shoes, because of the rocky ledges and associated danger. What surprised us was that people felt that thongs (or “flip flops” for you Yanks) constituted “good walking shoes” and we even saw one woman in a pair of fashionable scuffs, where if she stepped on uneven ground, the shoe would grip, but her foot would slip out of it. Oh well - we guess that if you are in the middle of a National Park, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest capital city, wandering down a rocky ledge in 35C heat, you might as well be trendy.

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