A Scottish agriculturalist once advocated the use of harrowing to produce copious good quality fodder and when he saw in the distance some large haystacks he deduced that this particular farmer - a Mr Murphy – had indeed been harrowing as the stacks were so large. Closer inspection of the haystacks revealed they were in fact granite stones. Henceforth they were known, tongue in cheek, as Murphy’s Haystacks. The prominent outcrop of pink Hiltaba Granite, purported to be over 100,000 years old, are on private property 40km from Streaky Bay just off the Flinders Highway, so there is a token donation of $2 per person at the farm gate which allows you to wander around the ancient wind worn formations. Technically they are inselbergs, which translates as “island mountain” and are formed by the uneven weathering
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