No distance travelled.
We had a "bush" breakfast cooked over an open fire in the bush at the Undara resort!!! 
There was billy tea or coffee as well. The women cooking it kept telling us to eat as much as we wanted and I realised why she was so keen when I paid the bill ... $22.50 each!!! It was pretty cool overnight and in the early morning. Jumpers were the order of the day.We decided to go on a couple of excursions. Colin went on a four hour excursion to four lava tunnels and I went on a two hour one to two tunnels. 
This whole area was inundated with lava from several volcanoes 190,000 years ago. The flow went all the way to the coast some 160kms away. Because the flow was slow the lava at the surface cooled and solidified whist the lave underneath kept flowing and thus the tunnels were created. Our guide was about 90 and he had bow legs. I reckon he was riding a horse in the wet and dried out that way. He gave us a ball by ball commentary on the lava tunnels and the surrounding bushland (savannah). All very interesting but a bit too much detail for me. After lunch we rode our bikes to the Kalkani crater. This is the crater of one of the volcanoes that created the lava tunnels. We walked round the rim and checked out the views over the countryside. The crater itself was full of vegetation so was not particularly impressive. 
It last erupted 20,000 years ago and doesn't look like it will do so in the next 20,000 years. On the way back to Undara I videoed Colin riding on the gravel road. He stood on the pegs for about 30 seconds looking a bit shaky. I can't check out the video until I get to a more powerful computer than this little notebook as it it in High Definition. Colin in HD ... the mind boggles.
There was billy tea or coffee as well. The women cooking it kept telling us to eat as much as we wanted and I realised why she was so keen when I paid the bill ... $22.50 each!!! It was pretty cool overnight and in the early morning. Jumpers were the order of the day.We decided to go on a couple of excursions. Colin went on a four hour excursion to four lava tunnels and I went on a two hour one to two tunnels. 
This whole area was inundated with lava from several volcanoes 190,000 years ago. The flow went all the way to the coast some 160kms away. Because the flow was slow the lava at the surface cooled and solidified whist the lave underneath kept flowing and thus the tunnels were created. Our guide was about 90 and he had bow legs. I reckon he was riding a horse in the wet and dried out that way. He gave us a ball by ball commentary on the lava tunnels and the surrounding bushland (savannah). All very interesting but a bit too much detail for me. After lunch we rode our bikes to the Kalkani crater. This is the crater of one of the volcanoes that created the lava tunnels. We walked round the rim and checked out the views over the countryside. The crater itself was full of vegetation so was not particularly impressive. 
It last erupted 20,000 years ago and doesn't look like it will do so in the next 20,000 years. On the way back to Undara I videoed Colin riding on the gravel road. He stood on the pegs for about 30 seconds looking a bit shaky. I can't check out the video until I get to a more powerful computer than this little notebook as it it in High Definition. Colin in HD ... the mind boggles.
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