Lake Kenyon, Murray-Sunset National Park
From the motel in Mildura, the tour continued to drive onto Murray-Sunset National Park – a park that is renowned for its red dirt and clear blue skies. The Murray-Sunset is the largest national park in Victoria with attractions including – the Shearers Quarters (a hostel style accommodation) and the spectacular pink lakes.
The journey started south from Mildura until we turned onto Pheeny’s Track which led onto sunset track until we reached the Pink Lakes. It’s quite a well graded road – at times sandy steep dunes that require some high clearance – very remote area so plenty of fuel, food and water supplies is a must including recovery equipment.
Roads are well graded and at times sandy (like above)
The Pink Lakes – are salt lakes (Lake Kenyon, Lake Crosbie, Lake Hardy and Lake Becking) and are absolutely breathtaking – You can actually walk on the surface of Lake Kenyon, and the algae Dunaliella Salina – is what makes the colour pink. The lakes have been tested at 99% pure salt and harvesting stopped in 1979. These lakes can also be accessed from the highway if one chooses not to drive through the Murray-Sunset.
Lake Kenyon Salt lake
After admiring the spectacular views of the lakes, we headed off to our next stop - motel at Hay and from there went home to Sydney.
Spectacular wildlife