The Magnificent Flinders Ranges

RAWNSLEY

CHASE RANGES

Wow, this area is so spectacular and it is very hard to take photos that do it justice. We are staying at the caravan park at Wilpena Pound at the base of the ranges, lot's of kangaroos and birdlife. As you can see there are differing rock formations, driving in you wonder why there is no undergrowth under the pine trees, the reason being the very red dirt/rock base.

Yesterday coming here we had to stop before Hawker for about 20 minutes as the road was closed whilst they did some filming for an Australian movie "Roadtrain", so what a great back drop.

Some of the sights the last couple of days - ECHIDNA that we saw on one of our walks, the funny little thing sidles up to a tree thinking that you won't notice it. GOAT saw some of them by the Wilpena original homestead and then more on some very rocky hills. CROW has stolen an egg from somewhere and then went and hid it under a log. CAMEL well this man has just arrived near here after leaving Port Augusta two weeks ago and is heading up to Darwin, he expects this trip to take about six months, so we may well see him again on the road.