After 2 days rest at Semaphore it was off to the Flinders
Rangers to explore some of the oldest rock formations recorded in the world.
On the way we passed through the infamous town called Snowtown where the dead bodies in the barrel's were discovered. No stop over for lunch here!
The trip also saw us pass through a little town called “Quorn” where they were shooting a film called “Emu Plains”. We watched them shoot one scene which took approx 15 takes for a 20 second clip. I hope it gets more exciting than what we saw!
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| Arrival at Wilpena Pound |
Once in The Flinders Rangers we set up camp at Trezona
Campsite, approx 50 kms past Wilpena Pound. We were there with one other
family, so we had plenty of room to spread out. The kids were exploring the dry
river bed with James & Tom from the other camp site, and were able to go
for a ride on their bikes. Gus rewrote the new “Bang Bang” song with his own
lyrics.
We were up early the following day for a bush walk (Haywards Huts Network) surrounded by rock formations over 620 million years old which is pretty amazing considering the dinosaurs roamed just over 250 million years ago. In the afternoon we went on a drive around the area, and visited the Aroona Ruins, and drove on the back roads along the Range’s. Whilst there was not a drop of water to be seen, the view’s were spectacular.
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| Remains of one of the old huts used by the Shepherds |
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| Rock formations dating back 640 million years |
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| Will, not so happy about the walk... there will be plenty more of these to come! |
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| A wild emu on the side of the road |
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| A wedged tail eagle devouring his prey (road kill) on the side of the road - it's wing span was 2 meters |
An early start the following day and we were on the way to
the Eyre Peninsula. We stopped in at Port Augusta for some supplies, then onto
the Erye Highway for the drive west.
We passed the “Big Galah” at Kimba, and continued until we
came to a little town called Minnipa. Approx 10 kms out of Minnipa we came
across a great little camp site called “Tcharkulda Hill”. It was a mini Ayres
Rock in the middle of nowhere, with lots of boulders on top of the rock. It
made for some great climbing for the kids who spent all afternoon on top of the
rock.
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| Gus trying to tame the Big galah |
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| Our camp site at Tcharkulda Hill |
Stopped in at Streaky Bay and it felt like something out of
Sea Change – a beautiful little town.Our next stop over was at a camp site on Perlubie Beach, approx 20 minutes north of Streaky Bay. Although very
windy, it was an amazing place so we called this home for a couple of nights.
Tomorrow we start our long journey across the Nullabor Plain on the way to Western Australia.
PS... we now have reliable internet access, so hopefully more regular updates from now on.