Marg and I decided to have a look at both the Elder Ranges, north west of Hawker and Wilpena Pound north east of Hawker over two half day journeys.
Wednesday morning, we decided to walk to town and then on up Policeman's Hill to a lookout over Hawker and the surrounding ranges. Well worth the climb to get a sense of the area. Hawker itself is rather like an oasis of green in the brown/red plain of arid farmland.
On Wednesday afternoon we drove north to Parachilna at the top of the Elder Range, and as it happens, in line with the north of the Wilpena formation.
The day was fine and the cruising easy along great sealed roads. There are a few lookouts and pointers to settlements long since crumbled, and to various current farm homesteads.
The country side is relatively poor, but dominated by the Elder Range which is long and rugged with interesting formations showing the mighty uplift that has created the angled layers of rock and sediment.
At Parachilna, there is a famous outback Pub that sells feral burgers - camel, emu and kangaroo. As it happened, we
The water station remains
But no thirsty trains travel this way nowdidn't try the delicacy but did take the photo. What else is there at Parachilna? A sort of caravan park, some motel rooms, a disused railway station and FLIES. Seems they want a lift back to civilisation, and jumped into the motorhome as quick as a flash. They clearly missed the trains not stopping here anymore. We advised the flies that we were not a passenger service and managed to shoo many of them out the windows. But some remained.
These were small flies, about half the size of our domestic flies. Their brain was also scaled down, and were not smart enough to avoid capture with a paper tissue. Once captured, they flew away when shaken out the window.
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