After breakfast we were ready for our long drive from Wilpena Pound to the Barossa Valley. One possible route would have been mostly back the way we came almost to Adelaide, but we decided to try the B roads a bit further east, mostly to look at something a bit different and to check out a railroad museum in Peterborough. However, the first part of the trip, past Hawker, was the same as we’d driven a couple days before. As we drove, we kept seeing ruined sandstone buildings along the road. We later found out that they were the abandoned homesteads of farmers and stockmen trying to make a go of it in the Flinders Ranges. For every successful station we saw, there were two or three ruins. In a couple cases, the ruins were next
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