The Flinders Ranges is the back bone of South Australia stretching through Southern, Central and Northern Flinders and onto the distant Outback. It is nature dating back to 600 million years old and covers a number of national parks, small historic towns and aboriginal cultural sites. The Southern and Central regions are a scenery of gorges and ranges, forests and bush land, waterholes and semi desert inhabited by indigenous wildlife of Australia. |
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Mount Remarkable National Park at Southern
Flinders Ranges at Melrose. |
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Wild but friendly. The wire fence is needed to keep
wandering wild kangaroos and sheep from
entering the caravan park. |
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The caravan park near Willochra Creek is
nestled under towering red gums. This old
but healthy tree is hollow at the base and
fits-in 2 small children. |
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Landscape around the ruins of Kanyaka Homestead
Historic Walk near Quorn (on the way to Hawker
from Adelaide) in Central Flinders Ranges. |
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Moving nearer to the semi-desert, the vegetation except
trees dry up in mid summer. |
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Birds return in the evening at Rawnsley Park near the foot
of Rawnsley Bluff in Central Flinders Ranges. |
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Eucalyptus trees survive in dry conditions. A bird had just
returned for the night (the time was then 8 pm). |
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Red earth - the path into bushland at Flinders Ranges National
Park which covers an area of 94,908 hectares. |
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Giant Rock at the same site as Akaroo Rock where ancient
aboriginal paintings are found. |
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The other side of the giant rock where the ‘sculptured’
wave form a natural shelter. |
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| Bushland and the ‘wall’ of Wilpena Pound. |
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Wilpena Pound, the centre piece of
Flinders Ranges National Park. |
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| View from Rawnsley Park. |