Tag: Gammon Ranges
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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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Acacia Ridge + yellowcake
Tuesday July 26th was our last full day of walking in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park. The plan was to make an early start, walk Acacia Ridge, have morning coffee at Arkaroola Village, walk back to the car along the Arkaroola Rd, have lunch amongst the river gums in the creek bed of Kingsmill Creek, then…
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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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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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Interlude: a video
The little video below was made whilst I was on the 2021 camel trek to Lake Frome from our starting point at the township of Blinman in South Australia. It was made on the morning of the day that we walked into Mt Chambers Gorge just after lunch. I made a couple of ‘loading 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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Acacia Ridge walk
The view on the climb to Acacia Ridge gave you a clear sense of both the folly of pastoralism in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges and their sheer wildness.
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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?)
The Long Road to the North 