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Undulating the scenic route, quickly captured on my phone before the next vehicle dusted up the scene.
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’)
Another distant tree full of colourful parrots. They don't seem so wary when they are feeding on the ground in country towns!
sunset light over the pound of alligator creek, mount remarkable national park
southern flinders ranges, south australia
Mount Arden is on Argadells, a grazing property that offers tourist accomodation.
I was taken up to the summit of Mount Arden for sunset by the owners of the property.
The natural raw beauty of South Australias Flinders Ranges, last light hitting the escarpment ,had to shoot fast for this stitched pano, as the light lasted a matter of minutes
Late afternoon sun bathes the ruins of Kanyaka Station in a warm light, creating long shadows of the native and introduced decorative trees and the stone buildings which once were part of a large grazing property.
On our recent trip up through Central Australia we stopped at a very scenic site situated within the Northern Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia to look for a few of these stunning rock skinks. These lizards inhabit the rock castles and scree slopes abutting an ephemeral, stony, river-bed, meandering along the base of one of the gorges. Here is a wide angle portrait of a very handsome adult male Flinders Ranges Rock Skink (Liopholis personata). We were particularly taken with the facial and gular orange flushing that was so conspicuous on this beautiful lizard.
A panorama view of Wilpena Pound Range & Rawnsley Bluff. The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain ranges in South Australia, which starts about 200 km (125 mi) north of Adelaide. The Adnyamathanha people are the Aboriginal group who have inhabited the range for tens of thousands of years. Its most well-known landmark is Wilpena Pound / Ikara, a formation that creates a natural amphitheatre covering 80 sq km and containing the range's highest peak, St Mary Peak (1,171 m)
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
One of Australia's most famous landmarks and an area of excellent bushwalking. Located 429 km north of Adelaide, Wilpena Pound lies in the heart of the north Flinders Ranges and is a remarkable natural amphitheatre covering nearly 8000 hectares. It is a huge flat plain covered in scrub and trees and totally surrounded by jagged hills which form a rim. From the ground it looks like a rugged low mountain range which can easily be traversed. When you reach the top you look across the plain and can clearly see the hills around the edges.
Kanyaka Station was a cattle and sheep station in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, located approximately 40km from Quorn. The name of the station is taken from the Aboriginal word meaning ‘Place of Stone’.
This station was established by a young man, Hugh Proby, who at the age of just 23 set sail from the UK. The Flinders Ranges is very dry country, so it is both tragic and ironic that on 30 August 1852, Proby drowned when he was swept from his horse crossing the swollen Willochra Creek while trying to heard a mob of cattle during a thunderstorm.
Proby’s land holdings were subsequently sold and under the new owners, the station grew in size until it was one of the largest in the district with 70 families living there.
Severe droughts however, resulted in massive losses of sheep and eventually the station was abandoned. Due to its stone construction, many of the buildings survive today as ruins.
Hugh’s grave is not far from where he drowned. Six years after his death, his family had a tablet of Scottish granite shipped out from his homeland. It was hauled to its site by a bullock team from Port Augusta and estimated to weigh one and a half tons. At the turn of the century his sister Lady Hamilton came to Australia to visit his grave.
Thought I’d include a link to where Hugh Proby’s mother and father lived.. Now there’s a sea change!
Quorn, Flinders Ranges
South Australia
September, 2023
Echium plantagineum, commonly known as purple viper's-bugloss, Salvation Jane or Paterson's curse, is a species of Echium native to western and southern Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia. It has also been introduced to Australia, South Africa and United States, where it is an invasive weed.
Warren Gorge Conservation Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Pichi Richi Railway's ex Commonwealth Railways 3'6" gauge diesel-electric NSU52 on a relatively rare working of the Afghan Explorer from Quorn to Port Augusta. Seen near Saltia in the Lower Flinders Ranges on Saturday 29 October 2022.
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around sunset in Flinders Range, South Australia
The name Euro is typically used for the subspecies "erubescens" of the Common Wallaroo. Euros like hilly and rocky terrain. They are heavily built and the males are much larger than the females.
macropus robustus (erubescens)
wallaroe
wallaroo
Bergkänguru
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