The pictured puddle’s probable lifespan: a matter of days…or very few weeks.
Age of the creek bed and gorge in which it sits: circa fifty times older than The Grand Canyon!
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The shutter clicks which yielded this and the immediately preceding post’s images were less than one minute apart.
In the interim, my feet had taken very few steps.
Central Australia often reminds attentive visitors that whenever they pause to admire a splendid landscape they ought also look down at whatever is just in front of their feet!
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In mild weather, the short walk to this Central Australian landmark is very easy.
However, you first have to drive for 160 kilometres, south from Alice Springs.
That drive is a very different story – its final 20 kilometres, especially.
You should attempt it only in a 4WD with very high clearance…and a driver who is highly skilled, very patient.
Chambers Pillar was “discovered” by explorer John McDouall Stuart in 1860.
By then it had already been significant/sacred to (other) humans for many thousands of years; the relevant sediments were laid down circa 350 million years ago.
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Just over an hour east of Alice Springs, Trephina Gorge Nature Park is easily-reached and richly rewarding.
Its signature “attractions” are Australia’s allegedly-largest ghost gum, and Trephina Gorge.
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Is there a Great “Martesian” Basin, from which water “escapes” in certain places, forming petite “oases” on the planet’s otherwise “desolate” surface?
This gushing – or seeping – water originally arrived from the sky as rain… many thousands of human generations ago, when the proverbially dry Mars was a very wet place.
As you can see, the new photographic evidence is compelling.
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