Z Bend

The Z Bend is a popular tourist lookout on the Murchison River Gorge in Western Australia. It is located at about 30 kilometres east of Kalbarri, in the Kalbarri National Park. One of four lookouts in the national park, it is situated on a sharp bend in the gorge. The view includes an excellent section through the Tumblagooda Sandstone, a geological sequence of fluvial and coastal deposits over a kilometre deep.Picnic seating and toilets are situated next to the car park. From the car park there is a walk of about 500 metres to the gorge lookout. There is then a climb of about 50 metres to the bed of the Murchison River.