The Painted Hills

As soon as we arrived in William Creek it was time for those who were flying to see the Painted Hills to take off. John had elected to do the optional tour so will add his notes. The runway crosses the road! I watched them take off and then walked around the town area.

John - The peak of these hills is the bed of the inland sea, with the sea surface 10m above that. The sediment laid down slowly and composed of different layers of quartz tainted by various mineral deposits. It is all really fragile and mostly being eroded by the wind. It is so fragile that if there was significant rainfall all this would be washed into a new homogeneous layer. When we go to Coober Pedy, we will see that other side of this erosion pattern - the Breakaways.Read more