Halls Creek is not a very exciting town. It is known as the 'gateway to the Bungle Bungles.' I discovered when something is advertised as being the gateway to something it usually means there is nothing to do at that town. Campbell and I did venture to the old Halls Creek which was just fragments of old buildings and street signs which lead nowhere. We did also stop at the rock formation China Wall along the way.
The caravan park in Halls Creek is the worst we stayed in on the trip and we were protected by double fencing although the gate was left open all night. The first next the local aboriginals decided to have a shouting match with each other. The second night we stayed they were a little more well behaved.
The drive to Wolfe Creek is almost 170 kilometres along corrugated dirt road. Campbell and I had decided we would not try get the Mothership there so we asked for a ride and took the two and a half hour journey each way with a couple we met on the whaleshark tour. I feel if Campbell and I were not in the car the other two would have not got there. They would have turned around because of the rough ride. We did see one car while trying to tow a caravan had broken its suspension. I saw the same car on the back of a truck in yard in Katherine about two weeks later, so they had done some serious damage to the car.
Wolfe Creek is a meteriote crater although it is probably as well known now around the world for being the setting to the horror film Wolf Creek as it is for being a crater. I walked up and inside the crater and stood in the middle about ten minutes trying to picture what it would have been like when the meteriote struck. Campbell walked down then around the rim and within about 45 minutes we were back in the car on the way back to Halls Creek. I am glad to have seen it although it wasn't very exciting. The setting is also quite a bit different to the setting in the film.
The following day Campbell and I spent playing soccer and riding bikes with a couple of children from the Mornington Peninsula before leaving Halls Creek and camping the night at the entrance to the Bungle Bungles.
The caravan park in Halls Creek is the worst we stayed in on the trip and we were protected by double fencing although the gate was left open all night. The first next the local aboriginals decided to have a shouting match with each other. The second night we stayed they were a little more well behaved.
The drive to Wolfe Creek is almost 170 kilometres along corrugated dirt road. Campbell and I had decided we would not try get the Mothership there so we asked for a ride and took the two and a half hour journey each way with a couple we met on the whaleshark tour. I feel if Campbell and I were not in the car the other two would have not got there. They would have turned around because of the rough ride. We did see one car while trying to tow a caravan had broken its suspension. I saw the same car on the back of a truck in yard in Katherine about two weeks later, so they had done some serious damage to the car.
Wolfe Creek is a meteriote crater although it is probably as well known now around the world for being the setting to the horror film Wolf Creek as it is for being a crater. I walked up and inside the crater and stood in the middle about ten minutes trying to picture what it would have been like when the meteriote struck. Campbell walked down then around the rim and within about 45 minutes we were back in the car on the way back to Halls Creek. I am glad to have seen it although it wasn't very exciting. The setting is also quite a bit different to the setting in the film.
The following day Campbell and I spent playing soccer and riding bikes with a couple of children from the Mornington Peninsula before leaving Halls Creek and camping the night at the entrance to the Bungle Bungles.
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