Burra - Wilpena

There's lot's of old in Burra. Old jails, old police stations and old stables,  old libraries, old mines, old town halls, old bridges, and old people.

When we showed up the average age in town actually reduced slightly....!





We discovered that Burra is about the same height above sea level as Mt Lofty. It snows here regularly in winter, and I actually saw a snow "flurry" yesterday whilst Rose and I were out doing the 11km heritage trail. "What's a flurry?" "Rain drops turning to ice and going up, not down", I explained, "Oh!" We went walking both wearing 4 layers of arctic clothing, rain coats and umbrella's. I think the cold, wet and windy weather has finally caught up with us. Nevertheless we battled on..... our diesel heater has now assumed importance to us something akin to the second coming!

We had several families pull in next to us last night. School holidays are here and mums and dads are apparently taking the kids up to the north west to experience camping. They were in tents and were up and in the showers thawing out before I got there the next morning. A french couple, in Australia for our winter, camped next to us, were uttering something about "...should have stayed home..." but I couldn't understand them!

We left Burra and headed North to Peterborough, a place called Orroorroo, and then on to Wilpena.

The wind has all but gone and the sun is trying to get a look in. We're staying in the park at Wilpena Pound. We've booked for a couple of nights. Wilpena Pound a spectacular sunken valley. We're walking to the highest point tomorrow (1100m), a 6 hour hike and, we're busting the bikes out and heading out across the flat base of the valley the following day, weather permitting. Rose now does dirt..!

We booked in to the park and arrived about mid afternoon today to find that another Fletcher has assumed our booking. Luckily they had another site for us.

6 hours tomorrow... hopefully the weather is good. Either way, it's good prep for Tassie....