ADVENTURES
GREAT
AUSTRALIAN
ight
A nice mulloway taken off the beach in they
Yalata lands (p courtresy of Shane Murt
The old jetty at Eucla is a
popular resting spot for birds
Bunda cliffs just south of main
highway are spectacular
Epic dunes
Close to where the Wylie Scarp meets the sea,
just west of Point Culver, the Bilbunya Dunes
crowd up to the near sheer escarpment. The
prevailing southerly winds have built these white
masses of sand into some of the tallest dunes in
Australia, their peaks sitting atop long, sinuous,
almost sensuous, ridges of steep-sided sand.
They were mightily impressive and we pulled up
at their base a few hundred metres inland from
the sea and called it a camp.
The long sheer and impressive cliffs of the
Great Australian Bight start just east of here at
Point Culver and a track climbs from near our
camp up the Wylie Escarpment to begin its