Sat 5th September 2009: With the opening of the "Painters of the Flinders Ranges" art exhibition later in the day, not a lot was done today other than walking around the Campgrounds and relaxing. It was nice to see the emus and kangaroos walking within the Campground as they normally do which brings nature close to home. The exhibition opening was from 4.00pm to 6.00pm where there were 100 different painting for sale from a total of 10 Artist. After the opening, we all went to the Wilpena Pound Resort where we had an evening meal.
Sun 6th September 2009: As the weather had been improving as the weekend progressed, and with showers forecasted in for the start of the following week, it was decided that we would do the Skytrek drive a day earlier than originally planned. With this we headed off towards Willow Springs Station which was only 21 kilometres north of Wilpena Pound where we paid the $55.00 per vehicle and started the drive at 8.45am. All drives must be started no later than 10.30am to allow enough time to complete the trip before it is too late in the afternoon.
Skytrek started from the homestead and first went into a valley before leading us out into open flat country before again taking us back into the hills where we finished at the highest point that a 4WD can access in the Flinders Ranges. It was very winding as we reached the top making it difficult at time to stand still long enough to be able to take photos. We were lucky enough to have had the bulldozer working on some parts of the road over the few days prior to us being there. We completed the trip and arrived back at the homestead by 2.30pm.
SKYTRECK PHOTOS
