Day 9 - Walks and drives 26/09/15

Today we woke up a bit early to get ready for a walk we are doing today. The jacko's are joining us on this 6.6km walk to the Wilpena Homestead. The walk was fairly flat with a gravel path through a kind of rain forest. There was a river that ran in parts of the track were we saw birds and tadpoles. It was a really nice walk up to the homestead. We stopped at the homestead for a little break to sit, have some water and look at the homestead of course. Just behind the homestead was a rock sculpter of 2 aboriginal men hunting. It was really cool and strangely pretty. Then after we had, had a break and looked at the homestead and sculpter, we started climbing to the look out which was 500m up. It was a really steep climb and we were all struggling when about 100m up we found a lookout. We went up there and it was an awesome look out of Wilpena Pound. We could see the walls of the pound and the view was amazing. We found out after that the lookout we were at wasn't the actual lookout and we still had 400m to go. So Dad, Jacko and us kids went up to the other lookout while Mum went back down to the homestead. We struggled getting up to the other lookout and by the time we got there we were almost dead. It wasn't really worth the climb anyway because it was the same view as the lower lookout. By the time we got back down to mum we all collapsed and told her she was the smart one for going back to the homestead. When we got back to camp we all sat and didn't want to move. after we ate some lunch mum, dad and I went to Bunyeroo Gorge and drove along the geological track. Bunyeroo gorge was quite nice. There weren't a lot of flowers in the gorge but it was still nice and on the geological track, the rocks date back to 630 million years. That's a long time for the rocks to be there. While we were driving around Bunyeroo gorge we stopped at the famous Razorback lookout where the windy road is in front of the hills. Apparently it is in most photos of the Flinders Ranges. When we got back to camp we didn't do anything except for sit and then I cooked dinner of homemade pizzas. We then sat around the fire with everyone else for the rest of the night.

Today's blog is written by Chloe :)