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Paul Dudley | profile | all galleries >> 28 Australian trips >> 2006 Outback Trip (12 galleries) >> Album 6: Arkaroola - especially the Ridgetop Tour tree view | thumbnails | slideshow | map

Album 1: Across New South Wales | Album 2: Hattah-Kulkayne NP & Red Cliffs | Album 3: Burra and North | Album 4: Wilpena Pound and Flinders Ranges 2006 | Album 5: Wilkawillina and Chambers Gorges | Album 6: Arkaroola - especially the Ridgetop Tour | Album 7: Marree and the Oodnadatta Track | Album 8: A bit of the Stuart Highway | Album 9: Around Alice Springs | Album 10: Around Port Augusta | Album 11: Morgan and the Murray River | Album 12: Abandoned places in South Australia

Album 6: Arkaroola - especially the Ridgetop Tour

Arkaroola Resort is part of a private wildlife sanctuary, formerly a sheep station, which the owners are working to change back to "the way it was before white people came." There was copper-mining in the area in the 1870s and more recently there was exploration for uranium and other minerals. This did not lead to any more than minor pick-and-shovel work, but left a series of four-wheel-drive tracks through the hills to the north of the resort. I joined a tour along these tracks through spectacular mountain country to a lookout over the plains to the northeast
473: View from Coulthards Lookout – 1
473: View from Coulthards Lookout – 1		 477: View from Coulthards Lookout – 2
477: View from Coulthards Lookout – 2		 479: View from Coulthards Lookout – 3
479: View from Coulthards Lookout – 3		 480: View from Coulthards Lookout – 4
480: View from Coulthards Lookout – 4
482: View from Coulthards Lookout – 5
482: View from Coulthards Lookout – 5		 483: View from Coulthards Lookout – 6
483: View from Coulthards Lookout – 6		 484: Euro
484: Euro		 490: Red rock, eucalypts and spinifex – 1
490: Red rock, eucalypts and spinifex – 1
491: Red rock, eucalypts and spinifex – 2
491: Red rock, eucalypts and spinifex – 2		 494: The Ridgetop Tour
494: The Ridgetop Tour		 505: Rocks, spinifex and grass trees
505: Rocks, spinifex and grass trees		 509: “No, not that button.”
509: “No, not that button.”
510: An ancient landscape
510: An ancient landscape		 511: Not sheep country really
511: Not sheep country really		 513: The mountains end just over there
513: The mountains end just over there		 517: View south from Siller's Lookout - 1
517: View south from Siller's Lookout - 1
524: View north from Siller’s Lookout - 1
524: View north from Siller’s Lookout - 1		 528: View north from Siller's Lookout - 2
528: View north from Siller's Lookout - 2		 532: View south from Siller's Lookout - 2
532: View south from Siller's Lookout - 2		 536: View north from Siller’s Lookout - 3
536: View north from Siller’s Lookout - 3
541: Morning Tea on Siller's Lookout
541: Morning Tea on Siller's Lookout		 548: Mixed-up Mountains
548: Mixed-up Mountains		 553: Taken from the moving 4WD
553: Taken from the moving 4WD		 556: Red ridge, clearing sky
556: Red ridge, clearing sky
560: Part of the Ridgetop track
560: Part of the Ridgetop track		 590: The easy bit at the end - 1
590: The easy bit at the end - 1		 591: The easy bit at the end - 2
591: The easy bit at the end - 2		 My camp at Arkaroola
My camp at Arkaroola
Curly Mallee with Mistletoe
Curly Mallee with Mistletoe		 River Gums in a creek bed
River Gums in a creek bed		 Ruins of copper smelting works - 1
Ruins of copper smelting works - 1		 Ruins of copper smelting works - 2
Ruins of copper smelting works - 2
Sign on road leaving Arkaroola
Sign on road leaving Arkaroola		 Gammon Ranges
Gammon Ranges		 Balcanoona Creek
Balcanoona Creek		 Approaching Italowie Gorge
Approaching Italowie Gorge

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