Day 23 - Rawnsley Park Station

The Flinders Rangers are definitely spectacular, when you think that millions of years ago this whole area was seabed and now it is majestic mountain ranges.

The 3 of us had a leisurely start, sat in the sun with our morning tea,. Lovely to relax and chat, while the sun was charging up our batteries.

We had our map and off we went to various lookouts, some of which were certainly 4WD only, well worth the hill climbs though. There were so many different directions to take photo's and all showing totally new layers of rock formations which the forces of nature have produced. Very hard to capture the vast area on the phones.

Talked to a couple at Stokes Lookout who came from Cairns and regularly holiday in Yeppoon and Emu Park....small world. Saw lots of Emu's today wandering around, loads of tracks through the mountains which we believe are made by sheep, but we didn't see more than a few the whole day.

Back to the camp, bought a bag of firewood. While we were in the shop Sandy asked the lady all the questions we had about the area. Like where are the Sheep? She advised that they move them to different paddocks plus the goats also make the tracks...they have just culled them which is why we saw none. She said they are really good at hiding, guess that's necessary if you don't want to get shot. The area looks really dry but she said they have had 3 good lots of rain in the last 7 months and when it rains the creeks fill very quickly and people get stranded while waiting for the water to subside. At the moment every creek is dry as a bone so its hard to imagine what it would be like flooded.

Sandy had to work for a couple of hours, so I put dinner on in the Ecopot (slow cooker) while Wayne prepared the fire. All came together perfectly, was lovely sitting around the fire to keep warm while eating in the moonlight.

Wayne captured a perfect photo of the slipstream from a jet flying over in the moonlight and discovered a setting on the phone for night photo's which highlights our campfire and Van.Read more