South Australia’s Gawler Ranges
By Marion Halliday –After a five-year-long dry spell, it rained the night before our trek to Outback South Australia’s Gawler Ranges. Quite a lot, by Outback standards!
A bit of rain isn’t necessarily a problem when you’re travelling downunder. Unless your destination is only accessible via a 128 km (80 mi) stretch of rough dirt road that turns to sloppy mud road after a downpour. Or is a family-owned working sheep station with all-dirt (and rock) 4WD tracks that turn to all-mud when it’s wet. Or has evening entertainment involving watching the ‘outback telly’ (campfire!) outdoors, fed by wood collected from the (now wet) roadside.
Or in our case, all three!
Was it time to bail out? A quick call to our destination – Mount Ive Station – put our minds at rest. The main road in wasn’t closed – yet – and some of the 4WD tracks were still open.
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GlobeRovers Magazine December 2020
Mount Ive Badlands
Mount Ive Station Scenery
Mount Ive Rhyolites (the organ pipes)
Late afternoon overlooking Mount Ive
Lake Gairdner
Lake Gairdner
White-winged fairy wren
Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa) a blue-tongued skink
Kangaroos at Mt Ive