Category: rocks
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Kingsmill Creek + Arkaroola reef
As it was mentioned in this earlier post we spent the afternoon of our last full day in the semi-arid mountainous landscape of the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park walking in the Kingsmill Creek Gorge. The creek is accessed from the road to the Paralina Hot Springs, which I haven’t been to. We had been to…
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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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Italowie Creek Walk
We drove the 30 or so kilometers on the Gammon Ranges Road from the Nudlamutana Hut to the Italowie Gap campsite going past Balcanoona Station and the nearby Echo cliffs. I spent a bit of time wandering around the Gap taking photos of the traces of pastoralism before we started our walk to the gorge…
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to Bunyip Chasm
It was a slow drive in the Subaru Outback from the Nudlamutana Hut where we staying to Bunyip Chasm via the Mt McTaggart track, then on part of the Wortupa Loop Track in the Illinawortina Pound. We carefully drove to Grindell’s Hut and then onto Loch Ness Well campground. It took us around 3.5 hours.…
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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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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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The Mawson-Spriggina walk
The second walk was an easy one. It started from the Arkaroola Village complex. It follows the Mawson Valley and returns along the Spriggina ridge. The walk is named after two geologists who had a long association with the northern Flinders Ranges — Douglas Mawson and Reg Sprig. Or more accurately, Spriggina refers to a…
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