Rising 15 metres from the ground and more than 110 metres long, the rock looks like a giant surf wave of multicoloured granite about to crash on the bush below. More than 2.7 billion years of wind and rainwater erosion has created this towering formation. Water from the springs running down the lichen covered rock during wetter months dissolve minerals, adding to the colouring of the wave. Amazing perspective from above …..that’s Lake Magic in the background.

I walked to Hippo’s Yawn as well. The ‘yawn’ is a large ‘tafone’, a hollow/cavern in a boulder usually caused by the scouring action of wind and rain. However its thought that in the case of Hippo’s Yawn, it’s more likely that salts from the salt lake just to the north, have crystallised out within the boulder, exerting enough pressure to expand outwards, eventually the outer shell of the rock being breached forming a window.