If you are not planning to overnight on the Guest Farm Ameib you should budget a minimum of 4 hours
which should just give you enough time to visit the Bull's Party and
the Philipps Cave. Mid day temperatures in summer can reach 40c.
There's an amount of reflection from the rocks, so wear a high
protection factor sun screen and carry enough water.
While walking around the Bull's Party, pause and see
what is 'going-on' here. The erosion of the rocks is an on-going process,
even today. You will see Huge boulders that
have cracked in half owing to temperature weathering. On a hot
day the sun can heat the rock to temperatures that make them too hot
to touch. A sudden heavy downpour of summer rain can suddenly cool the
rock to a point where the pressure caused by contraction can cause
massive boulders to split, (core cracking) or as can be seen below left the surface layer
of granite has exfoliated from the body of rock
How the strange rock-shapes at the Bull's Party
were formed
The series of events that lead to
the strange rock shapes that can be seen today at the Bull's Party began millions of years
ago when the rocks were buried beneath the earth's present day surface
level. The ancient granite, in areas, was layered, and in wet periods
the underground waters would wash through the fissures and over a
period of time widened the gaps. The weight of the overlaying rocks
and overburden caused the rock layers to crack vertically in places
forming large rectangular shaped blocks.
