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Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill), Qld

29/7/2017

 
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Driving to the National Park you cross the river in three places. It’s awesome, but we were slightly nervous crossing these in Cherry, then we spoke to a Grey Nomad that crossed the fast flowing water towing a large off road caravan…. they almost lost the van as it slide off the road… we had nothing to worry about…
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​The area is home to the Waanyi Indigenous people who believe the Boodjamulla or Rainbow Serpent created the gorge and permanent water spring and say that if you pollute or tamper with the water the Boodjamulla will leave and take the water with it.
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Painted rock rainbows, on the side of the shear cliff rock face representing the Boodjamulla are visible in the lower section of the gorge, marking a sacred site for the local indigenous people.  This truly is an oasis in the Outback.
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Fresh water crocodiles inhabit the waters, but are harmless unless you make them cranky and the local walks along the river, through the gorge and up in the surrounding range are breathtaking and well worth the effort.
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The visually stunning Lawn Hill National Park is incredibly geologically significant. Originally formed about 1560 million years ago in the Proterozoic era the gorge and range that we see today were sand and lime deposits in a shallow inland sea. Over time the water has continuously evolved the area, eroding the sandstone and limestone and depositing with it calcium carbonate or calcite to form a porous brittle rock known as tufa. ​

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