Morning Glow

It’s getting too hot now in the Flinders Ranges for most daytime activities so I probably will not be heading up there again for a while now. This sunrise over Rawnsley Station is from a trip a few months ago when it was a little cooler. As I sat up here watching the sunrise a […]

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Cairn

Little mounds of stones seem to be part of arid landscape walking trails, at least all of the arid walks I can remember. I wonder how the scattered rocks and stones come together apparently all on their own because I have never seen anyone actually build one. There was nothing special about this cairn over […]

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Great Southern Land

From halfway up Rawnsley’s Bluff in the mid Flinders Ranges and looking back to the southwest is a vista that is beautiful, stark and dramatic. A short 5 hour drive north of Adelaide is all it takes to get to this part of our diverse country and this time of the year is the best […]

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An Elder Morning

As the sun rose behind me a great shadow raced down from the distant ridge-top of the Elder Range. It was breathtaking the speed it moved but that was nothing to compared to the way it raced away from the base towards me across the eucalyptus and native pine scrub below. As the shadow got […]

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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 […]

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