Wolfe Creek Scenic

Tour Highlights
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As you leave Halls Creek, your flight descends into an aerial circuit over the Purnululu National Park, also popularly known as the Bungle Bungles. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the beehive domes are estimated to be around 360 millions year old, and feature layers of sandstone and colourful bands of algal coated iron and manganese.
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Past the Bungle Bungles, the flight brings you to one of the greatest jewels in the Kimberley crown, Lake Argyle. One of the world's largest man-made lakes, with a surface area of around 1,000 square kilometres, Lake Argyle was created as part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and feeds down into over 20,000 hectares of farmland through the Diversion Dam.
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Further north you will see the Ord River Dam, a rockfall dam comprised of compacted quartzite and a clay core. The dam is what formed the creation of Lake Argyle.
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The flight then passes over Kununurra and turns south, travelling along the east coast of Lake Argyle, before the Argyle Diamond Mine comes into view. Commissioned in 1983, the Argyle Mine produced more than 800 million carats of rough diamonds, averaging 20 million carats per year, in its 37 years of operation. It is most well known for producing over 90% of the worlds pink and red diamonds.
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On the return journey back to Halls Creek, enjoy the vast scenery of the Kimberley plateau and a number of pastoral properties.
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