Another 5 AM waking - and here we go! On the road again!
Right in the Red Center of Australia.
Look, it is red!
It is really hot outside, and we're gonna do a few hikes...
It's gonna be awesome!
And so we went on a 3 hour hike to the King's Canyon!
It's so hot!
But look at the colours!
Up the "Heart Attack Hill"
to the rim of the Canyon,
to peer down at the "Garden of Eden" -
at oasis in the middle of the desert.
In spite of the scorching heat, animals and plants can thrive here.
In fact, there are over 700 species of plants in this national park,
including some very rare ones.
This, for example. Believe it of not, in used to be a dinosaur snack.
But the most amazing fact is:
the sandstone of the King's Canyon dates back to Silurian Period,
and is about 440 million years old, which is way older then dinosaurs.
It smells like a sauna.
So it's iron. It's limestone, covered in iron.
Those arrows show where to go.
This hike would have been a relatively easy hike if it wasn't for the heat.
A few years ago, in 2014, the park was in grave danger
from an attempt to get permission for oil and gas exploration,
which would fave likely destroyed this unique place.
However, the traditional owners of the land stood up for it
and managed to convince the government to refuse it.
This year it was put on the list of protected sites.
I think this sets a great example, and I sincerely wish that more conservation stories had such a happy ending.
We only have one Earth, after all! It is out home!
You know what looks really weird here all of a sudden?
Clouds.
They look so... solid,
and they are floating in the air, like defying gravity. Look at them!
It's almost like you've never seen them before.
This is like an alien landscape, like a different planet!
We're collecting firewood now, so that later we can make campfire.
Oh! I don't know what this is! Any ideas?
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