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looking over the willochra plain towards mount remarkable from stokes hill
horseshoe range, moockra, flinders ranges, south australia
Another one of the many poses afforded by this very co-operative Wedgetailed Eagle as it calmly surveyed our group of annoying clickers and snappers in the Flinders Ranges, last year.
While shooting dawn above the hills of Angorichina, I noticed a distant tree light up along the ridge of a distant hill. The Flinders Ranges is full of these scenes at the ends of the day!
Making use of the last afternoon rays of sunlight to capture a portion of the ruins of what must have been a pastural empire.
Just tidying up the last of the Flinders Ranges photos. The moon over the Flinders Ranges. Such an arid area, yet still displaying a palette of beautiful colours.
The sun just caught a small band of rain nicely in this view taken from Port Germein looking south towards Port Pirie (lost in the rain) in South Australia with the lower Flinders Ranges on the left.
These are the cutest of Lizards and such good models. I'm sure they think if they don't move you can't see them.
Working close to the ground, amongst some very unphotogenic branches and thorns, but with the rather complementary ochre-toned desert sands behind her.
The Historic Arkaba Woolshed was built in 1856 and was used as a depot shed for the surrounding properties. The original corrugated iron roof is still on the building to this day. Back in the blade shearing days it was a 40 stand shed but now, with electric wide combs, it is a 5 stand shed.
Arkaba is the Aboriginal name of the tribe that inhabited the area. Arkaba means land of abundance.
Arkaba Station was first settled in 1851 by two Doctors from England called the Browne Brothers. They abandoned their medical careers and started buying property in 1843 at Booborowie Station, near Burra in the Mid North of South Australia.
In 1850 W. J. Browne, J. F. Hayward, G. Marchant and an aboriginal guide, explored for more pastoral country to the North. Heavy rain stopped the party just north of Hawker so they had to return to Booborowie Station.
William Chace, a stockman for the Brownes, was sent later in 1850 to further explore the country. It was then that Chace discovered Arkaba, Wilpena and Aroona country. As a result of this, the range north of Hawker was named The Chace Range. The Browne brothers claimed Arkaba, Wilpena and Aroona and engaged Frederick Sinnett, a surveyor from Adelaide, to survey their claims.
Early in 1851 they placed managing partners (Marchant Brothers) in charge, giving each a half share in the properties.
The Great Drought of the 1860s broke many pastoralists. The Brownes however, had the means of surviving but not the managers so the Marchant brothers left Arkaba.
In December 1862 a camel team returned from Cooper's Creek with the remains of Explorers Burke and Wills and camped at Arkaba. John McDouall Stuart also camped at Arkaba on his exploring expeditions.
During the 1890s dingoes posed a great threat for survival as Arkaba was still unfenced. Otto Batholomaeus, the then owner, spent all his money, and borrowed, to erect a vermin proof fence 6 feet high . Paddock after paddock was fenced. Batholomaeus applied for, and was granted, a perpetual lease. The cost of 14 miles of fencing in 1912-1913 was 954 pounds, labour 324 pounds, material plus freight 630 pounds. A man's wage was 30 shillings. After the Batholomaeus family finished fencing, they fought the dingoes, succeeded and Arkaba became a successful venture.
In 1984 the Rasheeds purchased Arkaba Station from the Bartholomaeus family who had been there since the turn of the century.
When the Rasheeds moved to Arkaba in 1984 there was only one road on the property and so destructive were the rabbits that the country looked like a moonscape.
The first major project was to eradicate the vermin by using bulldozers, explosives and chemicals. This project took 14 years and many hundreds of thousand dollars but the result was magnificent and won them 3 Ibis Awards for Pastoral Management. Bushes and trees that had not been seen for many years returned and the carrying capacity of sheep increased from 3000 to 8000. Approximately 10,000 feral goats have been removed from Arkaba during the past 21 years.
The old Stationmasters residence at Wilson on the old Ghan Line between Hawker and Leigh Creek in the north of South Australia.
We stopped the car as we approached the freshly killed kangaroo on the road, the first eagle took off but another opportunist came flying in and did not seem concerned that we were still there, which is quite unusual. This was taken just south of Parachilna on the hawker to Leigh Creek Road in the Northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia.
view to a far distant mount remarkable from the yacca track
the range native forest reserve / wirrabara range conservation park, southern flinders ranges, south australia
NT76 rounds an S bend during a photostop on the approach to Woolshed Flat while on a charter special from Quorn to Port Augusta on Saturday 14th October 2017
Kanyaka Station was a cattle and sheep station established by Hugh Proby in 1852 in the Flinders Ranges. The name of the station is taken from the Aboriginal word thought to mean Place of Stone.
A loaded export iron ore train has just departed Spencer Jct yard bound for Whyalla, South Australia, on Monday 4 September 2023. Aurizon's GWB104 leads the consist with GWB 102 and 105, seen in the distance, bringing up the rear in distributed power mode.
This is my 6000th upload on Flickr. At the time I posted my 5000th upload, not quite four years ago, I was averaging 450 uploads a year, but this has now dropped to around 250 a year since then.
There are several reason for this. I rarely go out with the camera these days. the local scene no longer appeals and I've not done much travelling of late, so there's little 'new' material. Plenty of slides and negs still to scan, but I've been slack in that department.
I think also that Flickr has lost a lot of its appeal and is losing the fight against other social media platforms. I can generate a hundred times the interest and comments from posting an image on Facebook. It also appears that Flickr's algorithms and counters are totally stuffed these days.
Of course on FB it quickly gets lost in the sands of time and a deluge of other pixels, whereas Flickr still does a pretty good job as an archive, especially from a personal point of view.
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A panoramic view of the rugged outline of Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia.
Taken back in 2014, this is the view from Stokes Hill Lookout towards the wonderful outline of Wilpena Pound on the horizon.
This was also my first trip away with the 28-105 lens I had just bought on eBay for the bargain price of $50-00! A good lens when stopped down to at least f8 or more, but not too flash wide open. This was its sweet spot at about f10.
Moving on from my previous post, this is the road just 20 or so kilometres out of Blinman on the way to Parachilna in the Flinders Ranges. It is usually just dry and dusty, but this was taken after a particularly wet winter and there were lots of patches of localised flooding.
At the time, I was just in a new two wheel drive hatchback much more suited to city driving and this crossing stopped me! Although it didn't look all that threatening at first glance and I might have managed to get through, for me, there were too many large hidden rocks just under the surface and the ground either side of the creek was extremely soft. Just minutes prior to this, a truck had to be dug out and many of those in four wheel drives were a little wary. So, although I had gotten through a few minor creek crossings to get this far, I chickened out at this one and turned back to Blinman, hoping to return one day in a more suitable car.
These are all real cars - no models this time! ; )
late evening light catches the native pines (Callitris glaucophylla) on a ridgetop section of the heysen trail, backed by the hills of the ABC range, and a the walls of the wilpena pound
ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia
Undulating the scenic route, quickly captured on my phone before the next vehicle dusted up the scene.
Dainty, common, widespread native plover of inland wetlands. This little guy was near a shallow pool in the impressive Brachina Gorge, where we searched for wild Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies without success.
looking north along the dreaming trail of the rainbow serpent from tanderra saddle on the rim of the wilpena pound - heysen range continuing on the left, ABC range on the right
ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia
sunrise is coming to a hilltop above the bunyeroo gorge near the acraman campground, with a view to, from left, the multi-peak ABC range, the distant wilpena pound, and the heysen range
ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia: the traditional lands of the adnyamathanha people (‘ad-nyer-mut-na’)