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    Kings Canyon, Australia   
      
      March 02, 2023   
      
       IMG_5688-Kings Canyon-Lost City   
      
       Kings Canyon-Garden of Eden   
      
      Photographer:  Rick Stankiewicz   
      Summary Author:  Rick Stankiewicz   
      While touring Australia for three months with my wife in 2014, we had   
      the good fortune to tour “ The Red Centre” (Northern Territory),   
      which is near the geographic center of the Australian Continent. This   
      tour included a bus trip from Yulara to Alice Springs as well as a side   
      trip to  Watarrka National Park. The jewel of this park is  Kings   
      Canyon, just 35 km (22 mi) from Kings Creek Station.   
      
      If you’re reasonably healthy, you’ll want to plan on the 6 km (3.6 mi)   
       Rim Walk but wear sturdy footwear and start early in the morning   
      for this trek in order to beat the heat and catch a stunning sunrise.   
      Once up on the rim trail, you’ll eventually enter the “ Lost City,”   
      a maze of weathered  sandstone domes (above at top). The canyon is a   
      combination of  Mereenie and  Carmichael Sandstones, divided by   
       shale and  mudstone, deposited between 400 and 440 million years   
      ago.   
      
      About halfway around the walk you find yourself descending a series of   
      wooden stairs into a palm-filled chasm called the “ Garden of Eden.”   
      It offers a shaded, cool respite, next to inviting pools of water that   
      reflect the south rim wall and the sky above (middle photo). The canyon   
      can reach depths of over 100 m (325 ft), so you need to stay on the   
      trails and watch your footing. Australia is a magical place, but   
      nowhere more so than the Red Centre. Photos taken on May 21, 2014.   
      
      Photo details: Canon XTi camera; Canon 28 to 70mm lens; ISO 200; f/4 to   
      10; 1/40 to 1/250 second exposures.   
      
      Kings Canyon, Australia Coordinates: -24.252966, 131.5757208   
      
      
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