Sawn Rocks, in New South Wales, Australia, is an example of a volcanic rock formation called “organ-piping”–it’s easy to see why. On our way to see this formation, a mishap occurred and I’ll share with you the following quote from my travel journal: “Sad day. On our way to Mt. Kaputar NP, I accidentally locked the car key in the boot. The car was unlocked, but the inside latch wouldn’t work. We ended up being towed by a guy named Brian to a garage in Murrurrundi owned by a guy named Ashley. It took a full 24 hours to get the key out and we ended up staying across the street from the garage at a trucker hotel instead of Craigton Resort at the NP.”
All was well in the end and I even managed to take this shot on our abbreviated visit to the park. We had schedules to keep!
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I posted on the same type of formations in California called Devil’s Postpile.
I thought I might have seen your post and, sure enough, I found it again and remembered seeing your photo of the postpile (and the cute deer) before. I haven’t been to Devil’s Postpile, but would love to. I have been to Devil’s Tower and Fingal’s Cave in Scotland, which have these formations. Amazing that there are so many site around the world, and I read that orbiters have seen them on Mars.
Hello again.
Thank you for places I may never visit.
Looks great.
Keep them coming.
Mike
I’m glad you like it Mike. Thanks!
These formations are amazing, Pam. Great photo. So sorry about your mishap…trucker stop vs. resort…😟. It will go down in family history as a good story.
Thanks, Jane! It is a funny memory—looking back. It was crazy! We thought, ok we’ll just drop down the the back seat and access the boot that way. But the control for the back seat was in the boot. The boot of that car was built like a vault.
That’s very much like formations I’ve photographed In Yellowstone National Park.
And, of course, Devil’s Tower is completely formed by such rocks.
I don’t remember seeing them in Yellowstone—guess I missed them. Devil’s tower is amazing. Are there any in Hawaii?
Here’s one of the areas in Yellowstone:
As for Hawaii, there are rocks that look a bit like that, but not in large numbers or size. Not saying there aren’t, just none I’ve seen.
Pretty much, lava. Lava everywhere you look. Some of the older flows show that kind of piping especially where they cut into the rock to make roads, but I don’t know how much of that is due to the construction and if any is due to a natural process.
That’s a beautiful shot. I missed those formations in Yellowstone. There is so much to see there.
It’s our favorite National Park (so far). We’ve been a number of times and it doesn’t get old.
Oh man, I would have missing AAA’s road service!
Those formations are so neat. We have some like that in the Eastern Sierras called the Devil’s Postpiles. I’ve only been there once as a child. Every time I’ve wanted to stop by while in the Eastern Sierras as an adult to photography them it’s been closed for Winter! They close pretty early for the season, and open late Spring early Summer when I’m rarely there.
Maybe I’ll have better luck once I’ve moved to NV and will be closer. 🙂
Have you been to the Postpiles?
We had good road service, but the guys couldn’t get into the boot until the next day. It took a lot of trying. So you are moving to NV!
Yes, we hope to. We bought a house there in September, and right now it looks like things may be lining up for us to move there early next year.
I won’t know for sure until late summer probably, but I’m going through my stuff and donating, and tossing a lot to make the move easier when it comes.
Ouch…after similar experiences I adopted the habit of always looking at the key before I lock anything. You photograph brought to mind the Giant’s Causeway of County Antrim, Ireland, another volcanic formation that seems to be a different type.
There is a list of all the basalt columns in the world on the Internet….very many of which I have only seen two or three. Yes, looking at the key would have saved the day! 😊