CROE5 Highlights Days 3 to 5: The Gawler Ranges
Margaret Northcote and Bryan Schell
Published: Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Days 3 and 4 were spent exporing the Gawler Ranges with stops at
- Pondanna Homestead
- Waulkinna Hill, which some of us climbed, at 198m it is the 301th highest mountain in SA!
- the Organ Pipes, formed from volcanic activity about 1600 million years ago.
- Sturt Lake, a vast salt lake that had some water in it giving the most beautiful refections.
- Flowers: the Sturt Desert peas in particular were spectacular, lots of wattles, succulents, flowering gums, etc
- Old Paney Homestead, where a golf game was initiated at lunch time. Gwen Schubert was the eventual winner!
- The sand hills causing challenges: a couple of bogged cars, which were easily enough freed. Add in the bulldust and corrugations and you can see the driving was fun!
- Special treats were Val's damper one day, and then her golden syrup dumplings the next, both cooked by Mal on an open fire.
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