Two slideshows to suggest the interest and beauty of the South Australian hills. The firstis shows a bit of historic Burra and the second one the Mount Lofty/southern Flinders Ranges that surround it. After I left Morgan the plain appeared flat, but it was really sloping gently upwards and then the first folds of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges emerged from a thunderstorm. I spent a week in Burra (O) and another three nights moving through the ranges before I descended to the flat land and spent a night at the foot of the range before merging into the traffic on the A1, A major highway running up to Port Augusta. It’s Burra Burra if you’re referring to the district but just Burra for the town. Actually Burra started off as half a dozen different small towns. It was the first place copper was found in Australia and was developed through Cornish migration and Cornish technical knowledge and equipment. Since 2017 when it was added to the National Heritage List, much has been done to preserve and showcase its history. There were so many attractions I stayed 7 nights in the showground and 1 more behind the Bon Accord Hotel. Red Banks Conservation Park would have been a wonderful place to bush camp not far from Burra, but I just made an afternoon visit. From Burra I’d intended to drive directly to the A1, but I ended up very grateful to a local’s suggestion that I take the scenic route. She said it wouldn’t add any extra time; however it proved so nteresting that it added an extra 3 nights. My route ran through - Spalding, - Jamestown, - Gladstone (A) where I parked behind the hotel-turned-café The Booyoolee Brew, - Laura (B) where CJ Dennis lived, - Wirrabara (C), - Melrose (D), - Wilmington, - Hancock’s Lookout (E) where I parked and enjoyed the view over the Spencer Gulf evening and morning, and finally to - Horrock’s Pass beyond which no more water flows into the Murray Darling River. I stopped one more night at the bottom of the Pass, - Horrock’s Pass Bush Camp (F) where I could look back for a night and enjoy a final view of what South Australians call The Divide.
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Ray W
29/5/2022 11:24:05 am
Nice, thanks Gillian.
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