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.