Sunday, April 22, 2012

Wilpena Pound, revisted

Today we started by visiting Yourambulla Caves, the site of Aboriginal rock paintings. It's a fair old climb up the rocks and then there were the ladders! The paintings don't look anything like those we have been led to expect. They just looked like random marks with charcoal.

Back up through the Flinders Range National Par, past Wilpena with a side trip to Stokes Hill lookout and then up to Binman, site of copper mining in days gone by. Took the scenic route through Glass Gorge back to the main road and a 'town' called Parachilna, didn't even see the horse, if it had one. Turned of the main road and went back through Brachina Gorge but this time from the west. The colours and light are so different every day, every corner you go around. The thing that strikes you most second time through is the width and size of the dry river bed you mostly drive on. Fabulous.

Back at camp I wandered off to take some random snaps waiting for the sunset, which was brilliant yesterday...

Snap of the Day

EMU! Look at him go. We were following him when he suddenly turned and sprinted back past us

 

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