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A detail of the Quorn Town Hall
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Kanyaka homestead ruins
Kanyaka was once the biggest outpost of 'civilization' in the region. Informative notice boards in the area give a hint of what life must have been like in this, then, very isolated part of the fledgling colony of South Australia. |
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An intersting cloud formation over Kanyaka stables
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This would have to be one of the most impressive old woolsheds in South
Australia, if not in Australia.
Some 40 000 sheep were shorn here around 1864
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Redgum trees in Arkaroola Creek near Kanyaka ruins
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The Hills of Arkaba
This area was first made famous by well known South Australian artist Hans Heysen. The hill in the middle distance is loosely called Mount Fuji, for obvious reasons. In the distance is the Elder Range. |
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Warren Gorge outcrops silhouetted against the winter sun.
Warren Gorge is off a minor road between Quorn and Hawker. |
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The quartzite walls of Warren Gorge
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What makes Warren (and Buckaringa) Gorge unusual in the Flinders Ranges
is that the flint-hard quartzite beds have been tilted up almost exactly
90 degrees from their original flat orientation.
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