Echidna Chasm Kimberleys
Echidna Chasm Kimberleys starts as a wide flat creek bed entrance into the East Kimberley Bungle Bungles. A short 10 minute walk down a rocky creek bed and soon narrows into chasm walls on either side. As you walk further into the massif the walls become deeper. High above the sun hits the top of the walls, bouncing reflected light further down into the chasm’s depths. Eventually the Echidna Chasm terminates at a narrow point only a few feet wide, the walls become so narrow that only a faint crack of overhead light is admitted deep inside.
First published in my Horizon 1998 large format colour calendar and later in my greeting card set, Echidna Chasm Kimberley is an example of how reflected sunlight in chasms can look like an object directly lit by the sun.