Welcome to Flinders Ranges National Park! Home of Wilpena Pound. Just five hours north of Adelaide!
Beautiful sunset with the mountains in the background. It was amazing!
Morning of our first hike! Justin is ready and gearing to go!
That peak to the left is St. Mary's Peak. That is the tallest peak in the pound. The pound is essentially a circle of mountains surrounding a plateau.
View from Tandera Saddle. You can see the walls of the pound and the mountains behind them.
Climbing to the top of the ridge. We had to use our rock climbing skills to get up there!
That peak to the left is St. Mary's Peak. That is the tallest peak in the pound. The pound is essentially a circle of mountains surrounding a plateau.
View from Tandera Saddle. You can see the walls of the pound and the mountains behind them.
Climbing to the top of the ridge. We had to use our rock climbing skills to get up there!
At the top of the ridge!
Behind us is St. Mary's Peak. We didn't climb it because it would have added another 2 hours or so to our already 6 hour hike!
View of one of the walls of the pound from the top of the ridge.
Behind us is St. Mary's Peak. We didn't climb it because it would have added another 2 hours or so to our already 6 hour hike!
View of one of the walls of the pound from the top of the ridge.
We are now on the pounds floor. It was very beautiful! I thought this looked a bit like Rocky Mountain National Park.
Our good friend Mr. Kangaroo. There were heaps of these guys everywhere! You couldn't go 5 feet without seeing another one! We saw way more roos than people!
Flies. They were every where and on every thing. As you can see they were all over Justin's backpack. The really annoying ones would hang out right by the edge of your lip. I won't miss these guys back home!
Another view of the pound. It was massive!
Our good friend Mr. Kangaroo. There were heaps of these guys everywhere! You couldn't go 5 feet without seeing another one! We saw way more roos than people!
Flies. They were every where and on every thing. As you can see they were all over Justin's backpack. The really annoying ones would hang out right by the edge of your lip. I won't miss these guys back home!
Another view of the pound. It was massive!
On Sunday morning we hiked Mt. Ohlssen Bagge. It was about a two hour hike. It was beautiful!
The start of the hike up the mountain!
Justin on the top of Mt. Ohlssen Bagge
View from the summit.
This was our nice little hire car. The Toyota Yaris. It served us well. We attempted to see these gorges that were on an unsealed road and we were told they were graded for 2 wheel drives. They weren't. They were the worst unsealed roads ever! We couldn't go faster than like 25 K an hour. We even came upon a little river that we were supposedly able to pass in a 2WD. No way! We had to turn around! Anyway, this little guy, we called the Blue Bullet, made it through the 4WD tracks and got us safely back to sealed roads!
On they way back home we stopped in a place called Burra which was an old mining town. Justin got out and took this picture of the old open mine. At one time it was the biggest in Australia. I really like this picture because of the sky. We were in the middle of a massive thunder storm!
The start of the hike up the mountain!
Justin on the top of Mt. Ohlssen Bagge
View from the summit.
This was our nice little hire car. The Toyota Yaris. It served us well. We attempted to see these gorges that were on an unsealed road and we were told they were graded for 2 wheel drives. They weren't. They were the worst unsealed roads ever! We couldn't go faster than like 25 K an hour. We even came upon a little river that we were supposedly able to pass in a 2WD. No way! We had to turn around! Anyway, this little guy, we called the Blue Bullet, made it through the 4WD tracks and got us safely back to sealed roads!
On they way back home we stopped in a place called Burra which was an old mining town. Justin got out and took this picture of the old open mine. At one time it was the biggest in Australia. I really like this picture because of the sky. We were in the middle of a massive thunder storm!
So this weekend we headed off to Wilpena Pound in the Flinder's Ranges. It was beautiful! We left after work on Friday night and came back home on Sunday. It was a full trip, but way worth it! The weather couldn't have been more perfect either. We hope you enjoy all of the pictures. They don't do the pound justice. It was amazing!
This weekend is the famous Adelaide Christmas Pageant (we think). So Bob and Anne are going to take us to experience this famous event! It is usually really hot for the pageant so hopefully this weekend will be cool for us. And Justin has a surprise weekend planned for us and I am excited! I will report back next week to let you know what he did for me! We miss you all!!
1 comment:
You guys are such dedicated hikers! I love it. I never would have known what a pound is, it looks beautiful. I can't imagine walking around with Kangaroos all around, are they like the deer here, where they are overpopulated and such? Do people hunt kangaroos? I am glad you survived in the blue bullet for more adventures, sounds like you had a good trip, Miss you guys!
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