We've spent the past several days immersed in the spectacle of the Flinders Ranges.
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| View from our campsite at Rawnsley Park Station on the afternoon of our arrival |
We parked up at Rawnsley Park Station - basically a caravan park in a bush environment.
Even shouted ourselves a treat for our anniversary with dinner at the Woolshed Restaurant on site. Main staple on the menu is home grown lamb - how can that be a bad thing? Scrumptious!
It's very dry country in these parts but doesn't take away from the splendour of the region. We enjoyed a few days exploring the region. On day 3, we did a 5.5km walk into Wilpena Pound which is a pretty easy going bush walk to an old homestead and ending up with a more strenuous climb to a couple of lookouts over the pound. You can look it up like I did - a pound is an old English term for a livestock enclosure usually surrounded by stone walls. In the geological sense, is a rock formation which forms an enclosure on a massive scale.
During the walk, we encountered some friendly wildlife which appear to be very comfortable around humans.
We took a drive to the northern most parts of the Flinders Ranges highway to an old copper mining town of Blinman (population 43). Sampled a local delicacy called the miner's pasty which is a main and dessert in one pastry - Regular pasty one end and apple pie the other.
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| Miner's Pasty |
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| These two came bounding towards me when I was by the roadside shooting a landscape |
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| Cazneaux Tree - a notable tree photographed by Harold Cazneaux in 1937 - "Spirit of Endurance" |
Our last day of exploration was spent doing the Moralana Gorge Road which is billed as a scenic route. That it was! About a 30km (good) dirt road which bridges across between two northbound highways.
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| North Arkaba School/Church (open 1888-1918 & 1932-1941) |
Monday, we are booked on a scenic flight over Lake Eyre. Stay tuned for that one!
