PORT GERMEIN
On 13/4/15 we traveled to Port Germein in South Australia,
a pic at the border and some pics of the landscape from Broken Hill to Port
Pirie.
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| Road pic |
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| Yay - the border! |
We
visited Port Pirie but the mail had not arrived yet so we stopped overnight at
Port Germein - free camping near town. We really enjoyed Port Germein, its a small town with what used to be the longest
original wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere at 1.7klm, now a little
shorter at 1.6klm (3.2klm return). We decided to stay another night and moved
to the caravan park for the night. We then walked the jetty at dusk. It was
beautiful, lots of people fishing and crabbing. The jetty is so long and the
water was only waist deep, we could easily watch the crabs walking in the
water. We also saw a dolphin in the water and a lovely sunset.
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| Port Germein Lighthouse |
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| Port Germein jetty |
FLINDERS RANGES NATIONAL PARK
On 15/4/15 we headed for Flinders Ranges National Park, stopped
in Quorn for lunch. We found a station offering bush camping for $15 per night very close to
Wilpena Pound (about 9klms north). The property was called Upalinna Station
which means “Little Water”. They had a total of 8 sites but we were all alone
for the three nights we stayed – beautiful! The one ‘facility’ was a bush pit toilet,
in its own shed, but I think the chances of spiders and snakes hiding in the
dunny were too high for me!
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| Bath in the bush! |
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| camp |
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| all alone - peaceful |
We visited Wilpena Pound the next day, Theo was loving the emus
wandering around. We did see lots of wildlife in the national park, emus and
kangaroos especially. Wilpena Pound is a large natural amphitheater and the
centre of the Flinders Ranges National Park.
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| Wilpena Pound skyline |
We spent the day doing some of the walks and also driving the
4wd tracks through the Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges in the national park. It
was a little bit wet during our time at the national park but not too bad.
Theo was a little unwell and the next day we thought we
might take him into Hawker to the doctor just to give him the once over as we
were heading further bush for the next two weeks. We headed down the road but
found it was impassable the rain had caused some creeks to flood. That was the
end of the doctor trip, ah well he came good anyway.
Instead we visited Rawnsley Park Station and also Sacred
Canyon to see some Aboriginal Art but unfortunately the rain was too heavy and
we were unable to get far enough up the canyon to see the art work before the
water coming down the creek bed was rising. We left the Flinders Ranges
National Park the next day heading for Arkaroola.
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