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This post’s photo is this series’ final “from Stokes Hill” landscape image, albeit its penultimate “from Stokes Hill…” shot.
All the landscape shots were taken within the space of 12 minutes.
This one looks west-ish, toward some of the mightiest of Wilpena Pound’s ramparts.
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This chapter’s featured image was taken six minutes after the #15 one in this series.
I invite you to revisit the #15 image, and follow its sunbathed ridgeline, along to the right hand side of the photo.
There – as “minor details” – you can see some of the very same “grass trees”, and the same more distant range and ridgelines that are the “heroes”,here.
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This chapter’s photo was taken less than a minute after #19’s in this series.
For #19 I used a “short” lens (46mm); for this one, I wheeled around, circa 100 degrees to my right, and deployed a much longer (400mm) lens.
The photo looks a little south of due east, towards vast, increasingly flatter, drier expanses.
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Shortly after I photographed #18’s “bush tomato”, I forsook the long lens, in favour of a shorter, wider one, which I pointed north.
Undulating, “arid zone”, outback Australian places really “sing” when they “bathe” in dappled winter light.
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Whilst rotating through the full 360 degrees, and admiring/photographing splendid vistas in every direction, one should also pay attention to whatever is immediately in front of one’s feet…
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Less than sixty seconds after I had taken the two previous “from Stokes Hill” images, my feet had not moved very far.
I shouldered the other camera (and a much longer lens – 400mm, effectively) and scanned the fast-shifting play of light and shade across an “ancient”, “unspoilt”, “semi-arid” landscape.
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This post’s photo was taken just a few seconds after the previous chapter’s, and from the same vantage point.
Here, however, I turned circa 70 degrees, to look a little south of due west, toward Wilpena Pound’s highest ramparts.
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Stokes Hill provides many different views – all, splendid – in literally every direction.
When rapidly moving clouds scatter across an otherwise intensely-blue winter’s sky, even someone who looked in only one direction would still enjoy a constantly-changing vista.
This is most spectacularly true during daylight’s first or final two hours.
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I took the photo at 2.36 pm on 04 June 2023, circa 80 minutes on from the image in #13 of this series.
We were now just east of the Flinders’ “spine”, and driving on the sealed surface of the Flinders Ranges Way.
The temperature was decidedly “brisk”, but the rain-bearing weather system had very nearly petered out.
My photo’s foreground expresses my fondness for grasses.
The image then looks across to some of the (then, cloud-shrouded) peaks which rim Wilpena Pound.
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For the most part, the Flinders Ranges – South Australia’s largest/longest “mountain” chain – run south-north, for more than 430 kilometres.
Of greatest interest to most tourists/travellers/walkers/nature-lovers is Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, most especially the section within a 30 kilometre radius of Wilpena Pound.
All of the very best locations are best accessed on foot, or only accessible by foot; many of those wonderful sites, however, are only a short and easy walk from somewhere motor vehicles can reach.
If the question is, “what places are legally, sensibly, safely accessible by motorised transport?”, the short answer is,”it all depends….”
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