Flinders Ranges

Isn't technology wonderful? Here we are at Wilpena Pound in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, 60 km from the nearest town, with no radio or TV reception, and we can sit outside our caravan with our wireless broadband modem and access the internet. Good on you Telstra! Not so good for Optus, we don't have any mobile phone coverage.

We've spent 4 days here. It is a walker's paradise, and we have taken full advantage, with some short and not so short hikes. Lookouts, aboriginal rock paintings, old homesteads, geological marvels. And if you don't want to walk to it, you can hop into the 4wd and rumble over the rocks and gravel tracks, visiting out of the way and scenic gorges (or was that really just hooning around?). We have of course taken heaps of photos, none of which really do justice to the spectacular vistas.

Just for a change of pace, we spent a couple of hours on the historic Pichi Richi steam train, running from Quorn to Port Augusta, in case you have forgotten what we look like we have posted a picture of us on the train.

This is the first really out of the way place we have been so far on this trip and we have had a ball. Even the wildlife have welcomed us!