For nearly 20 years of my young adult life I made my way down Button Road, through the middle of the Wangkuntila Aldinga Conservation Park (Aldinga Washpool), to get to Silver Sands Beach. In all that time I never noticed the natural treasure all around me. At the time, windsurfing was everything to me and […]
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That ‘pot of gold at the end of the rainbow’ might just be more than a myth in this freshly watered desert landscape. The rain now over, snippets of blue appearing in the north and then a beautiful rainbow as the weather’s parting gesture. It would all be dry again soon so we took note […]
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“I’ve been coming up here most weekends for the last 8 years”, he said, “and I’ve never ever seen any water in these creeks!”. What are the chances, we all thought? The one weekend we chose to camp out here in the rugged outback east of the Flinders Ranges is the one where 8 years […]
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There is an imaginary line running through the north of South Australia called Goyder’s Line which it was determined that farming above the line would be unviable to early settlers. Following a long period of yearly above average rainfall many farmers decided to shun the warning and establish cropping farmland well to the north of […]
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