Sunday Selections

Silo art at Kimba

Sunday Selections

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Kimba, South Australia

My theme this week is from our trip from South Australia to Western Australia.

South Australia has many small country towns that many people just drive straight through or perhaps only stop for fuel, and we have done the same too, but I am hoping to show a bit more of our little towns.

Silo art

Melbourne artist Cam Scale took 26 days and 200 litres of paint to complete the art work on the Viterra silo.

A sculpture of Edward John Eyre and his tracker

View of the silo art from the Edward John Eyre Sculptures

The Big Cockatoo at Kimba

Kimba is halfway across Australia between Sydney and Perth

Kimba free camp area at the Recreation Park, nice and flat

Kimba has several areas where camping is free and we have stayed there a few times.  The local council have provided a great area in the Recreation Park where toilets and showers are provided with only a small fee and a donation box.  The last time we stayed there,  the Pony Club were using the area and we enjoyed watching them go through their routines, just something to do while having an afternoon drink!

Flinders Ranges, South Australia

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Easter at Rawnsley Park

Entrance to Rawnsley Park Station

 

Sunset from Pugilist Lookout near Rawnsley Park

Rawnsley Park Station

Rawnsley Park Station is a 29,000 acre property and has been owned by various families since 1851.  Today it is still a sheep property but also a tourist attraction and has accommodation including eco cabins, caravan sites both powered and unpowered as well as basic cabins and more luxury cabins and campsites.  It is about a 5 hour drive from Adelaide and is in the southern Flinders Ranges.  The nearest town is Hawker, about 30 km south of Rawnsley Park.  

The Cazneaux tree

The Cazneaux Tree, also known as Cazneaux's Tree, is a Eucalyptus camaldulensis or river red gum that was made famous by the photographer Harold Cazneaux. It is located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Flinders Ranges near Wilpena Pound.

Scenery en  route

We have spent a few holidays in Rawnsley Park and many parts of the Flinders Ranges where we have camped in tents when our children were young, and then in our caravan since our retirement.  The Flinders Ranges is probably our favourite area of South Australia and most years we have spent some time in these beautiful ranges.  Over the years it has developed into a more touristy area but it is still enjoyable and still feels quite remote as there are many tracks and roads through the various valleys where you can feel quite isolated but also not far from civilisation.

Our holiday over Easter was with friends and family and friends of friends so our group was quite large, last count was 28.  Our two adult children with their families made up our family group of 11. 

This is the airstrip at Rawnsley.  Our son and family had a 1/2hour flight over Rawnsley Park and Wilpena Pound.

The waterhole at Rawnsley Park

View of the Flinders Ranges from Rawnsley Park campground

View of our van and awning and the group setting up their camper trailers

Our 5 grandchildren posing for the photo

Entrance to old Wilpena Homestead

Entrance gate to the old Wilpena homestead

Sunset from Pugilist Lookout near Rawnsley Park

Another view from Pugilist Lookout

Rugged rock formations

This view was taken north of Wilpena resort, near the Cazneaux tree

This is a painting which we have in our lounge room which was painted about 30 years ago by a local man from our suburb who obviously loved the Flinders Ranges as much as we do. As you can see the dirt road is now bitumen.  When we first visited here it was dirt road from Hawker through to Blinman.