Up early for sunrise at Stokes Hill, a 20 minute drive from Wilpena Pound. Most roos get out of your way or move into your way, this one just sat there on the road.

From Stokes Hill

Wilpena Pound from Stokes Hill

Sun on the north-eastern section of the Pound

Wilpena Pound is a natural amphitheatre of rock – a huge geosyncline.

The road to Stokes Hill

Spinifex

Furred friends

The Red Plain below of Willow Springs Station just outside the park

Morning stroll

Staring competition – careful mate, or you’ll end up at the hopthamologist.

Lonely galah

Dingley Dell

Ring neck parrots – Port Lincoln parrot sub species with the dark hood

Solanum bush

The time warp with short arms: “It’s just a jump to the left, and a step to the right, put your paws on your…. chest and your knees in tight.”

Ancient Indigenous rock engravings

Heysen Range on the western flank of Aroona Valley

An ancient landscape

Youngoona sheep station hut from the 1850s

Currant bush

Brachina Gorge road on the eastern end

The Slippery Dip on Brachina Creek crossing

Aroona station ruins from the 1850’s

Aroona Valley – filled with cypress pines and river red gums

Mount Hayward from Aroona ruins

The hut (renovated) used by famous painter Sir Hans Heysen when he stayed in the valley.

Heysen Range

ABC Range

Heysen Range

Today was roo day

Cypress pine hillside

Hucks Lookout

Wilpena Pound south eastern corner

The track into the Pound past huge river red gums

Natural water supply from aquifers feed the resort – the water level never changes

Mount Ohllson Bagge at sunset

Hills Homestead in the Pound – sadly no hoist

The track follows natural rock ramps up to Wangarra Lookout

Across the Pound

Heysen Range from inside the Pound

We started a 7km walk at 4pm – the winter darkness caught up with us on the way back

But the walk became a spotlighting  activity as the kangaroos became active

A very slow late night drive to see the kangaroos out in huge numbers

Wilpena Pound and the Milky Way

Milky Way

The Moon over St Mary’s Peak