Undara National Park

May 7th-8th

The landscape changed as we headed into country that was once very volcanic. There were mountains and lush green vegetation . Within this National Park there are lava tubes that were formed by volcanoes about 10 billion years ago. When one of these volcanoes erupted, as the lava cooled the huge lava tubes formed (mostly made of basalt) These lava tubes are at least 30 metres high and we were able to walk through one that was 200 metres long.







There are many lava tubes within the national park but only a few are open to the public. You can only enter these tubes with a guide as these are the biggest and longest lava tubes in the world – we are lucky that they aren’t closed off only to the scientific community!
We were lucky to see pretty face wallabies along the way and a black snake in the distance!




We also walked to the rim of an extinct sporia shield volcano to see other shield and cone volcanoes in the distance.