Blogs from Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 5

Hi guys, been a few weeks and we have covered lots of miles since Esperance, we left Cape Arid after experiencing the ARID Zone environment and spectacular coastline, we had temps. ranging from 20 - 40 degrees at times with thunderstorms and high winds thrown in, pretty wild place and very changeable, but starkly beautiful. Unfortunately, no photos yet relevant to this entry as memory card not yet downloaded. We started the Nullarbor Plane/Eyre Highway expedition with a warm up of 197km drive along the Parmango Road, a dirt road that crosses part of Cape Arid and huge cattle homesteads. We discovered along the way a disused 1870's homestead called Deralinya that had a fascinating history and was still being used as bothy by passing travellers, one of whom was a lady cyclist! In these temps., ... read more

We did a lot in the past week. Probably as much in one week as Les and I did in our first month here. As a result, and since this blog is first and foremost my way of recording our time down here, these will be some LONG blogs. I’ll be posting three in all, but I’ll caption them. So if you feel like you’d like to read about Flinders Ranges, you can skip to that section, or you can skip it altogether. I hope this way those of you who read in five minute breaks here and there will have some nice ‘break length’ snippets. Adelaide Our flight to Adelaide took place in two parts, and both went about as you’d expect given we were flying with a toddler. The only exception was that on ... read more

This is the last of the Flinders series - a month later. The title said it all - with the rain settling in on our visit to the Flinder's Ranges, we did some scenic driving through the Ranges including Stokes Hill Lookout, Bunyeroo Valley, Hucks lookout, the Geological trail and back to Blinman. The wind was in full force on Stokes Hill - we almost were blown off! There is a neat contour map in bronze of the area at the lookout - so it is well worth the visit. The sign going up says no towing vehilces - but we saw several vans with trailers heading up regardless. There was plenty of wildlife about - kangaroos and many flocks of emus. We had a running joke about the animals being planted there for the tourists, ... read more