It’s not rained here for more than three weeks now and it’s starting to show. The wetlands north of Adelaide are becoming more and more like salty badlands every day. Marches have turn to mud and cracked like a patchwork of crazy paving. Time to pray for rain.
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Spotlight On the Pound
The beautiful Wilpena Pound is an ancient geological formation which looks like a giant crater and is something of a temperate oasis in the semi-arid Flinder Ranges. Off in the distance what appears to be a gentle saddle separating left and right sides is the incredible Edeowie Gorge. The small triangular peak a little to […]
Read MoreRawnsley Reflection
The southern wall of Wilpena Pound is fortified with the Rawnsley Bluff escarpment. Anyone approaching the pound from the south gets to watch it rise larger and larger until it looms above them on their left as they make their way up the eastern side. This region of South Australia is considered arid and only […]
Read MoreCrystal Grass
Arid region plants use all sort of tricks to remain hydrated for the months that separate quite often heavy downpours. These beautiful crystalline structures are not blades of grass but leaves of small shrubby bushes. Like pine needles the cylindrical tubular leaves seal in the water keeping the internal cellular workings in good shape through […]
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