The immediately-preceding post’s aptly-named Prairie Hotel sits on an almost horizontal plain.
Look out the pub’s back door, however, and you will see – running all along the horizon – the “spine” of the northern Flinders Ranges.
They were “built” circa 800 million years before the pub was.
Hop into a vehicle, drive east for ten minutes, and you will enter one of the loveliest of the Flinders Ranges’ many dramatic gorges.
The photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken in Parachilna Gorge at 2.51 pm on 07 June 2023.
As a future multi-image post will at least begin to illustrate, Parachilna Gorge has many facets/aspects.
The same comment applies to just about any “outback” place; when walking, you would do well to rotate your head, frequently… and to shift your eyes’ focal point, constantly.