Category: creeks
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A Flinders creek bed
A note on Photographic Exceptionalism The pictures are of early morning light on tree roots of red river gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis,) in Benbibuta Creek in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. They were made with a Rolleiflex TLR whilst I was on a camel trek from Blinman to Lake Frome in 2021. When I…
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Bararranna Gorge: deep time
Monday (July 25th) was the day of the Bararranna Gorge walk. We had walked the Bararraanna Gorge trail last year. We remembered the various waterholes, the Sturt Desert peas in the creek beds and the rock formations in the gorges. The bushwalking groups deem it to be moderately challenging (C+) and it is a popular…
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At Balcanoona Creek
Sunday (24/7/2022) was a rest day from walking. The plan was for a large format photography session at Balcanoona Creek in the late afternoon after the sun had dipped below the cliffs. In the morning we cleaned up Nudlamutana Hut then drove to the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary for petrol, mobile connection and an ice cream. On the…
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Mt Warren Hastings
The first day we decided to do the Oppaminda-Nudlamutana trail as it started near the Nudlamutana Hut where we were staying for the week. We decided to walk this trail to Mt Warren Hastings where we would have our lunch, and then return to the hut. We chose to do a linear walk along a…
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Brachina Gorge
On our last full day in the southern Flinders Ranges we drove through Brachina Gorge which runs through the Heysen Range towards Lake Torrens. We started from the Blinman Hawker Rd, exited on the road to Parachilna + Leigh Creek, then returned to Hawker via the Moralana Gorge Rd through the Elder Range in the…
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at Hawker
Whilst we stayed at Hawker I drove out to the 5 Ways Corner and the Hookina Creek floodplain to see if there was public access to Lake Torrens. The Lake Torrens road only lead to a pastoral station.
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Bararranna walk
Arkaroola Creek was the main focus of the day’s walk. The high walls of Arkaroola Creek creek are tillite (Merinjina Tillite?)
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Kingsmill Creek + Tillite Gorge
Day 6 involved driving up the road to Paralana Hot Springs, a walk along Kingsmill Creek, Arkaroola Creek and Tillite Gorge.
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Italowie Gap
n the late morning Suzanne and I drove from Balcanoona to Italowie Gap on the Copley Road. We had morning coffee in the Italowie camp ground, drove a kilometre or so into the Gap, and then walked around the bed of the Italowie Creek.
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Weetoolta Gorge
The first days C grade walk on the RASA Bushwalkers camp was in the Balcanoona Range. It was overcast as we walked along Worturpa Creek to Weetoolta Spring had morning coffee at the junction of the Balcanoona and Worturpa creeks, then walked along Belcanoona Creek to Grindells Hut. We had lunch at the hut, which…
The Long Road to the North 