EXPLORE AUSTRALIA - 04
Updated: Sep 3, 2022
Mount Flinders Ranges (6Days/5Nights)
Day 01
Arrival at South Australia
Mount Remarkable National Park
The national park consists of two separate areas. The first is the parcel of land (often called a "block) located immediately west of the town of Melrose and consists of three areas: the Warren Bonython Link, Mambray Creek and Mount Remarkable. This block occupies 165.83 km2 (64.03 sq mi).
It is filled with a wide variety of animals and birds such as goannas, emus, echidna and kookaburras, which can be seen walking around the park. Besides these, it is home to 117 native bird species, including Australian ringnecks and wedge-tailed eagles.
City Tour at Quorn
A main attraction in Quorn is the Pichi Richi Railway. There are also self-guided walking tours in the town, including several based around the town's historic old buildings, the railway yards[12] and other historic locations.
Quorn recently installed signage outside the historic buildings for historic and tourist information. The Flinders Ranges Visitor Information Centre / Pichi Richi Railway in the Quorn railway station has a museum, and provides visitor information including workshop tours, bookings for travel on the railway, accommodation information, heritage self-guided walking maps and souvenirs.
Stay Night in Quorn
Day 02
Go to the Dutchmans Stern, a bluff in the southern foothills of the Flinders Ranges
Lake Torrens
Lake Torrens (Kuyani: Ngarndamukia) is a large ephemeral, normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia. After sufficiently extreme rainfall events, the lake flows out through the Pirie-Torrens corridor to the Spencer Gulf.
Islands on the lake include Andamooka Island and Murdie Island, both near the western shore; Trimmer Inlet runs between Andamooka Island and the shore, and Carrapateena Arm is an arm extending westwards south of Murdie Island.
Lake Quorn
She-oak woodlands
In ideal conditions, Western Sheoak grows to a height of about 15 metres (49 ft). Where exposed to salty coastal breezes, however, it is usually somewhat smaller. It usually has a diameter of 0.5 to 1 metre (1.6 to 3.3 ft) at breast height. As with other Allocasuarina species, its "foliage" consists of slender green branchlets informally referred to as "needles" but more correctly termed cladodes. The cladodes are segmented, and the true leaves are tiny teeth encircling each joint. Male trees have small brown flower spikes at the end of branchlets. Flowering is prolific, giving male trees a rusty brown hue during flowering in late winter and early spring. Female trees bear small flowers on short branchlets of their own. Fertilised flowers develop egg-shaped cones from 1½ to 3½ centimetres in diameter.
Stay Night in Quorn
Day 03
Flinders Ranges.
The flora of the Ranges are largely species adapted to a semi-arid environment, including sugar gum, cypress-pine, mallee and black oak. Moister areas near Wilpena Pound support grevilleas, Guinea flowers, Liliaceae and ferns. Reeds and sedges grow near permanent water sources such as springs and waterholes.
Since the eradication of dingos and the establishment of permanent waterholes for stock, the number of red kangaroos, western grey kangaroos and wallaroos in the Flinders Ranges has increased. The yellow-footed rock-wallaby, which neared extinction after the arrival of Europeans due to hunting and predation by foxes, has now stabilised. Other endemic marsupials include dunnarts and planigales. Insectivorous bats make up a significant proportion of the mammals. There are a large number of bird species including parrots, galahs, emus, the wedge-tailed eagle and small numbers of water birds. Reptiles include goannas, snakes, dragon lizards, skinks and geckos. The streambank froglet is an endemic amphibian.
The Ranges are part of the Tirari–Sturt stony desert ecoregion.
Visit Brachina Gorge
Stay Night in Quorn
Day 04
Go to the northern end of the Flinders Ranges
Visit Blinman Pools
Stay Night in Quorn
Day 05
Ohlssen Bagge
The land around Mount Ohlssen-Bagge is hilly in the southwest, but in the northeast it is flat. The highest area in the area has a height of 1,063 meters and is 2.5 km southeast of Mount Ohlssen-Bagge. Less than 2 people per square kilometer around Mount Ohlssen-Bagge. In the region around Mount Ohlssen-Bagge, mountains are remarkably common.
Stay Night in Quorn
Day 06
Moving to Adelaide
Visit wine production region
Move back to airport