A couple of lovelies next to beautiful Sturt Desert Peas - at Hawker.
Our initial impression was 'oh dear', as the beautiful big trees around Wilpena were replaced by big bare stony hills - but Darryl's research paid off and our camp site is great. We are set up alongside a dry creek bed - very private and secluded but with our own drop toilet and back at the homestead (a 15min walk or 2 min drive) we have flush toilets and showers. Luxurious!! We have a fire pit and picnic table and the area is nice and flat for our campers.
Camp Bray / Greenwood at Willow Springs.
Gee the nights are cold though and thank heavens for the campfire, hotwater bottles, big jackets and lots of rugs. We are as warm as toast in our campers. However, the cold nights herald beautiful sunny days and today probably got to 17 at one stage so we can't complain. It's interesting that feral goats have been almost eradicated ( we saw 3 today) but the kangaroo, euro and wallaby populations are very extensive - we saw them everywhere today and as I write this they are around our campsite - but thankfully they aren't pesky and don't get into our gear. The station owners here are able to cull 1200 a year - that wouldn't make much of an impression on the numbers we reckon. It was good to see the Yellow Footed Rick Wallabies today - on the way back from extinction following the goat reduction.
We packed up our picnic baskets and headed on a tour of the ranges today and boy, are they spectacular!! We went to Wilpena Pound and had a look around there then headed on the scenic route through the Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges.
We saw this gypsy van being towed by 2 lovely draught horses - what a lovely way to travel through this lovely country. But boy, the horses were working pretty hard up and down the hills.
This tour takes you along many creek beds - some still had a bit of water so Darryl can say he did creek crossings again! The geological formations are amazing and cameras and words really can't capture the beauty of the mountains. No wonder Hans Heyson loved this area! We saw today where he used to camp and paint.
We carried onto Parachilna where we saw the Prairie Hotel where all sorts of exotic foods are on the menu - kangaroo, emu, camel ........ We are happy to come back to camp to enjoy pasta!
Tomorrow we are off on a SkyTrack self drive tour of the property. The property is 70,000 acres and they run 1 sheep to 16 acres (plus heaps of kangaroos) The tour is 80 kms and takes 7 hours to complete but the way Dennis drives we'll do it in half the time 😃😃. I'm hoping on some hill on the track there will be mobile phone coverage so I can post this - otherwise it will be posted when we pop back into Wilpena Pound for fuel. We've found that fuel and grocery supplies are not in abundance so thank heavens we stocked up at Port Augusta.
Can't believe it's not even a week yet since we ventured off - our time will slip by quickly! Trust all our readers are well .... Till next blog ❌❌❌ from Marg, Darryl, Dennis, Tops
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