272 Flinders Ranges 02 18.4.2019

I feel so powerful, when my photo-editor suggests I should ad some bones to a creation

At night it was surprisingly warm and only late Doron had the logic idea to open the tent except the mosquito net and then it was better. Still we woke up early what was good regarding our plan also to leave earlier for less heat on our first hiking tour of the day.

The wind was very strong, making dismantling the tent a bit challenging.


Today, we crossed the Parachilna Gorge that is famous and important because of the many different layers of stone in a small area. It is interesting to see some formations in red or white or whatever and then learn what scientists can read out of it.

On one way, we had difficulties to find the right track, because the sign was hidden, and we went straight on a path instead of crossing a dry bed of a river.

We tried to find a place with stromalites and on the way talked about another group of Germans that lost their way and died in the desert. “another” group, because 2015, we also had been talking and a bit mocking about Germans dying in the desert, because the left their car after it broke down, went in different direction without enough water and made everything to increase the chance to die. And then Markus said he could show us a photo of “those” alive and D asked “Germans?” and M said, “yes, they look terrible!” and this is an example of the ping pong in our fun conversations…
We found the track but we again didn’t find fossils. “Again”, because there was one site before, with a sign “20m” but we were not the first to wonder, because on the sign you could see question marks and “eh” and so on.


After that, we visited the Aroona ruines, a settlement of a British man who had established a sheep farm in 1851 and even had managed to get rich after selling everything in the right moment and going back.

Soon after, we went to “our” next campsite and decided to stay there the rest of the day. Again, it was not easy with the flies but with the nets on the heads (M’n’D) and in the roof tent (M&M) we could do it.


A highlight in the best sense of the word was the rising of the (nearly?) full moon. First you only could see the shine over the mountain and the direct and strong moonlight in area east of us but soon we also were lightened by a very big moon face that looked different than in Europe. We made the evening short, because we wanted to make a hike in the early morning that we had postponed from the afternoon.

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