Hamish goes to Mungo Land

On Monday we went to Mungo National Park. Mungo is an historic place where the lake dried up. Mungo has walks, bike tracks, and a lunette (wall of China/lake bank). It is called a lunette because the bank is shaped like a crescent moon.

In 1968 an ancient human body was discovered in the lunette. The finder (Jim Bowler) named the body Mungo Lady. In 1974 a man’s body was found. Jim Bowler, who was a geologist, named the man Mungo Man after Mungo Lady.

When we arrived at the visitor centre, we went on a walk that went around the area.

Once we finished, we went into the old shearing shed. The shed was huge.  Once the shearers finished shearing a sheep, they shoved them down a chute which took them back to the paddock.

We went to the China Walls next to have a closer look. We drove over to them and went on a 10 min walk to a lookout. We went to 2 more walks. The first one was a ten minute walk to another look out, otherwise we went to a one minute walk to a little platform to take photos. 

On the middle of the lake we saw a large group of Emus. A group of Emus is called a mob because they can get out of control and destroy crops quickly. A group of kangaroos is also called a mob probably for the same reason.

We finished the day on a nature walk near the main camp ground. We managed to see another three emus and a kangaroo, and Dad and I tried to figure out some of the tracks that we came across.