Flinders Ranges, South Australia, 14-15 August 2016
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This is my first post of a workshop in the Flinder’s Ranges, South Australia in 2016 organised by Keith Seidel and his wife Barbara, who I met on the South West Canyonlands Tour two years earlier.
After the Flinder’s Ranges, I will post on the trip to Cuba and the Caribbean, which directly followed. You can see itinerary and maps here, including links to old temporary posts that I will update as I post.
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I left a day early and stayed overnight at the resort in the middle of the National Park. This is a view from near there. Over those hills is Wilpena Pound, a huge natural amphitheatre created by uplift rather than vulcanism. I could have walked there but it’s more likely to be a sunrise shot than a sunset shot. Perhaps I should have walked there next morning in the dark for dawn but I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to get to an appropriate viewpoint. Instead I decided to drive to Wilkawillina Gorge because I thought its opening might have a good aspect for the dying of the light, and to scout an easier place for the sunrise.
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I didn’t quite make the gorge though, so I stopped to take this photo before I ran out of light.
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Next morning I rose early to take some photographs at dawn. This is probably from Huck’s lookout.
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Seven minutes later.
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After breakfast I headed off to a rendezvous with the workshop group. I needed to go west but there was no road so I initially went north. This is Yanyanna Hut.
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As you can see, not the most salubrious of accommodation, especially in the summer which would get very hot.
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The track to a lookout. Razorback lookout, I think.
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This is a view from the lookout.
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And this is nearby.
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Next stop was Aroona Hut, constructed in 1925. Artist Hans Heyson stayed here in 1927 and visited many times subsequently. Here is a news item of a painting of his and some background.
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No doubt he saw this view many times from inside the hut and watched the changing light.
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This is the view from nearby Aroona lookout, looking towards the Heysen Range. There was a small sheep station nearby. It was founded in 1851 and was moderately profitable for a few years. But overstocking and droughts in 1864 to 1866 led to its abandonment.
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The view back to the hut from near the lookout.
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Further north, I drove through the small town of Blinman and found this old house.
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The front door was locked so it was not possible to enter …
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… except through the back door.
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The sparse interior gives a hint of what it must have been like to live here years ago.
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I met up with the workshop group in the middle of the day and in the late afternoon we headed off to photograph the Edeowie ruin at sunset.
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There will be some more images from here in later posts.
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Murray Foote 
Super pictures! Murray, can I ask you a question: How did you organize your trip in Sth America? Who with? Please advise. Maybe to my e: wkruk@hotmail.com Thanks a lot!
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Thanks very much Waldemar! I take it you mean Atacama. CosmoAndino. They were great! http://www.cosmoandino.cl/servicios.html
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Hi Murray, thank you for your prompt reply. I am planning a trip to Sth America and am thinking to organize all excursions there via the Sth America/Argentina/Chile/Brazil tourist office rather than tourist office in Australia with the latter I found v. expensive.
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Thank you v. much for your prompt reply and for the link. I’m planning a trip to Sth America but found prices in Tourist Offices in Australia v. expensive and wonder to organize the whole trip by the tourist office in Sth America like in Argentina/Brazil//Chile/Peru and hence I wanted your advice about your trips out there. Thanks again. Should you have further suggestions to my plans to visit Sth America I would appreciate greatly.
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I’m not even sure I understand what you mean by a Tourist Office. Apart from when I’m joining a tour, usually a photographic tour, I research, plan and book everything myself. If you haven’t already seen it, you may like to have a look at my trip to Patagonia in 2011. https://murrayfoote.com/category/itinerary/
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What I mean by ‘tourist office’ is like in Australia Escape Travel, Peregrine Adventure etc. But you have answered how you do it and I do appreciate and thank you once more for replying. Also thank you for your link to your ‘itinerary’, which I found helpful.
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I mainly go on tours organised by photographers rather than companies and to places difficult to go by myself. Otherwise I research a detailed itinerary (my next trip has ten pages filled of links) and if I am hiring a car, I generate a detailed route for a car GPS.
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Your itinerary, planning and pictures made are admirably excellent!
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Love the texture on the back door.
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The back door on our house in Canberra certainly doesn’t look like that.
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