Shortly before we forsook Wilpena Creek, and started to walk uphill (and thence into Wilpena Pound) we encountered the pictured, “permanent” waterhole.
Such places are particularly precious in regions where creeks variously rise, rage, flood, trickle, then cease to flow at all – visibly, at least – for unpredictable periods, sometimes many months…
(photo ©️ Doug Spencer, taken in Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park at 8.46 am, 05 June 2023)