Thursday, 26 July 2012

Last Day in the beautiful Flinders Ranges


Well we awoke at 1.30am on our 2nd night to a rustling sound coming from the annexe and I actually thought OMG! someone’s into our belongings, I nudged Mark, and said “someone’s out there”, he jumps up and I shine the torch out the window to see the biggest grey Kangaroo, eating something, Mark tries to move it along as it was actually eating our map, we knew never to leave any food out, but a map, I thought wouldn’t taste all that good. We found out it was the big daddy kangaroo. I asked for another map at reception and they said “I guess the kangaroo ate it” how did you guess, it happens all the time.
Today we drove to different lookouts to view the sceneries of the magnificent Flinders Ranges; it was cold and windy today though. We also checked out other campsites that were in the northern Flinders ranges and drove along a rocky creek bed and saw the biggest red gum trees we have seen growing in the dry creek beds.
Again in the afternoon Mark, Dylan and Oliver took off on another walk to Arkaroo Rock, which has Aboriginal paintings. This took them 2 hours and on their return collected some firewood outside of the National Park, as firewood collection is prohibited in the park and Dylan was so looking forward to a warm open fire to sit around. Our last night in the Flinders Ranges was enjoyed sitting around a campfire toasting marshmallows. Bed was in sight around 9.30pm and by the time we got inside the tent the kangaroo’s were out again sniffing around the campfire or actually enjoying the warmth from it.





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