Rawnsley Park SA, Wilpena Pound SA, Flinders Ranges SA, Iron Knob SA
Rawnsley Park, Flinders Ranges SA. May 9, 2015 Another easy sort of drive today, still heading east. In a former life as a grot-nosed pre-pubescent teenager, the town of Iron Knob in SA always brought a ripple of tittering around the geography class when it got mentioned, along with Kolyaknobin in WA. Well here we are today driving right past the three run-down shacks and seedy hotel that consists the tow of Iron Knob, and the enormous hole-in-the-mountain that once used to be the aforementioned Knob. It’s iron ore country and some wit in days gone by decided that the go would be to dig out the whole mountain, take it tho Whyalla and turn it into pig-iron. Good on them. You just cant imagine anyone today looking at a bit of landscape and deciding to just obliterate it for the sake of a few dollars in their pocket. Or can you? Took a tiny detour into Port Augusta to go to the ‘big shops’ for a few things like fresh bread and butter. Then we turned north-ish ...