Category: Australia (not WA)

At 3.50 pm on 07 June 2023 my feet were very close to where they had been when I took the “7A” image, just three minutes earlier, whilst enjoying a leisurely walk through part of Parachilna Gorge.

I was, nonetheless, effectively able to get nearly eight times closer to one of the previous photo’s four peaks – by looking through a 400mm lens, as opposed to 54mm.

This series’ “7” posts both feature a “landscape” photograph, but “7B” will offer a much closer view of one of the “7A” landscape’s four peaks.

Both featured images show just part of what is a striking landscape through all 360 degrees; that holds true through the entire length of Parachilna Gorge.

The gorge is on the western side of the northern Flinders Ranges, and is easily accessed from the nearby “town” of Parachilna.

Parachilna is within daytripping distance of Wilpena, but a much better idea is to stay two nights at Parachilna’s truly-wonderful hotel. (the hotel pretty much is the “town”)

Even on the greyest of days – when an Australian outback  “landscape” appears to offer a rather limited “colour palette” – a closer view is almost guaranteed to confound your initial impression.

The post’s “6B” image was taken within a few minutes of the “6A” photo, and their vantage points were not very many footsteps apart.

In June 2023 my beloved and I visited the Flinders Ranges, (plus other outback South Australian places) and the Northern Territory’s “Red Centre”.

Nearly half a century had passed since our most recent trip to Wilpena Pound and nearby places.

It was more than forty years since we had last been in the NT, together.

Both regions proved as singular and beautiful in 2023 reality as they had been in our memories of the 1970s.