Tag: Wilpena

 

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…

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This post’s photo was taken just three minutes after the second one in this series’ first post.

By 8.24 am, the ridge tops  above Wilpena Creek were no longer mist-shrouded.

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All photos in this series were taken on 05 June 2023.

All locations were within a morning loop-walking distance of Wilpena Resort, or a deal less than one hour’s driving distance from Wilpena Pound.

The Flinders Ranges region is a unique and beautiful part of Australia.

Winter is the best time to go there, and most of it is less than a full day’s drive away from Adelaide.

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