South Australia’s Painted Desert has to be seen to believed.
It takes some effort to see it; access to this spectacular, very fragile place is restricted, and the Painted Desert is on private property.
Arckaringa Station handsomely meets any reasonable definition of “remote” – more than 960 kilometres from Adelaide, it is more than 100 kilometres north of Coober Pedy.
Astonishing-enough as is the particular section depicted here, it is not the most colourfully-“painted” part of the Painted Desert, nor the most arrestingly-“sculpted”.
(I am saving the “best bits” for a future Pelican Yoga series which will feature several special places in the northern parts of South Australia’s Far North)
Suffice for now that what you are looking at was once part of the bed of an inland sea.
Yes, Australia actually did have an vast inland sea, albeit many millions of years before white “explorers” engaged in their “wild goose chase” to “discover” one.
(photo is ©️ Doug Spencer – a wide-angle shot taken at 2.45 pm on 12 June 2023)