Know before you go. The 9km Loop walk past Nature's Window is closed to starters after 7am from November through March, because temperatures down in the gorge can hit 50°C — the cooler months, May to October, are the time to walk it. There is no drinking water and very little shade: carry three to four litres per person per day, wear a hat, loose clothing and sturdy footwear, walk with someone, and tell a third person where you are going.
The Murchison River has cut an 80-kilometre gorge through red-and-white banded sandstone laid down on tidal flats some 400 million years ago — its exposed layers among the most accessible places on earth to read the trackways of some of the first animals to walk on land. Nature's Window, a wind-eroded arch, frames the river at the head of the 9km Loop walk; Z Bend marks its sharpest turn. Nanda Country, in Kalbarri National Park.
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