All Posts in the ‘Deserts and Outback’ Category

Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA

Canyons, slots, gorges, mesas, buttes, arches … and other strangly named rock formations created by millions of years of erosion – all of this without any trouble can be found in the Canyonlands National Park, all in one place.  Combined together it creates some of the most outstading landscapes I have ever seen.

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Lake Gairdner stretches for 160 kilometers in length and 48 kilometers across and is a fourth largest dry salt lake in Australia after Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens and Lake Frome. Some places can have a layer of dry salt up to 1 meter thick.

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Murphy’s Haystacks is a small group of granite boulders and pillars located on the top of the hill in the western part of the Eyre Peninsula (South Australia), not far from the Streaky Bay. Read more…

Sand dunes are definetly among the list of a must see attractions of the Coffin Bay National Park. Dunes are located along the ocean beaches and stretch for kilometres in length and width. A 10 kilometre Gunyah Beach is one of the good spots with a stripe of sand dunes about 1 kilometer in width.

Coffin Bay National Park is located on the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula, approximately 50 kilometres west of Port Lincoln. Read more…