On first sight the salt lake stretches from North to South with steep dunes, known as the 'Walls of China', shimmering like a mirage on the horizon. The dirt road takes us across the lake bed, dry now for 19,000 years. Covered in low scrub and well populated with kangaroos and emus, the lake is part of a series of 'lunettes' (half-moon shaped lake beds) that occupy this area.

Approaching the spine of dunes that line the eastern side of the lake we can see the weather-sculpted mounds that cover the western face and can start to visualise the other-worldliness of this ancient part of the world.

The day was spent walking, exploring and photographing various parts of the Walls of China. On leaving the carpark it is a one-way journey of about 60 kms of dirt road around the lake crossing the Walls to the south and through mallee scrub to some enormous sand dunes dividing the lakes in the north. The wind was blowing hard in the afternoon and we could see huge columns of sand rising into the sky at the northern end of the lake so the more delicate equipment had to be locked away in the car.

We made it back to the carpark by sunset and made haste to the top of the Walls of China to try and capture the stunning reflected light on the landscape as the sun went down. In the few minutes it took for the final scan the colours had changed from fiery orange in the sky and cool purples in the rippled sand to deep twilight blues and dark greys.

We watched as three emus strode in single file up over the dunes for the evening and knew we had witnessed a unique place on an exceptional day.

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