Flinder's Ranges

We were woken this morning by strong winds flapping the canvas on Rosie, so we decided to pack up and have an early start. It also looked like it could rain, so we packed up straight after showers and had brecky at Macca's in Port Pirie. On the way out of the caravan park we could hear the singing swimmer again. Dave took a video of him, but it was so windy the sound didn't work too well. As we drove north it continued to be extremely windy, creating huge dust storms. We needed headlights on. Once the wind and dust stopped it started to rain, and by the time we reached Port Augusta it was pouring. They only get about 3 inches of rain up here p.a. I reckon they had it all today! Hopefully tomorrow will be fine and we'll see the true colours of the Flinder's Ranges.

The Flinder's Ranges are different from any landscape I've seen in Australia. Even though it was a wet, grey day today, you could still see the colours and shapes of the place. We eventually arrived at Hawker where we found a nice caravan park and set up. The rain stopped long enough for us to set up, then started raining again. There was a beautiful rainbow this arvo, and the rain seems to have stopped now, and it's a bit breezy.

Late this afternoon we went for a short drive. When we left the sky was very grey, but it started to clear in the west on the way back, and Dave got some nice shots of the sky.