After a couple of ordinary days with water you could surf on, the wind let up and it was skiing time. The barefoot guys were up on it at 6:30am but we were a more realistic 10:00am.

Rachael did a double ski then Bradley and Jenny went up on a dual knee board followed by Rachael and Jenny on a dual knee board. My back was playing up so I sat in the boat to observe.

There were a few good spills but missed them on camera.

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One of our group wanted to head up to Farina to see the ruins – why not -its only 150 kms away.

Farina is like any other ghost town in the Australian outback until you see the background to the town. It was originally called Government Gums in 1878 but called Farina later after the Latin word for “flour” as they had plans to grow wheat – what were they thinking.

This town was a major railhead with a couple of hotels, bank, police station, school, stores and hospital. At its peak there were 300 people living here.

We stopped at Leigh Creek on the way up, checking out the Drag Line, coal mine and Titan Truck.

Another stop on the way home was Talc Alf at Lyndhurst, even though Alf wasn’t around there was plenty of his work around.

At Copley, the group split up. Half took the bitumen and went through Beltana back to camp while the rest of us followed a line on the map. It would have been quicker if we could have found the end of the track onto the Warraweena track.

Took the chance to have a look at the ruins of the Sliding Rock Mine ruins – one of the many mine ruins in the Flinders Ranges, before heading back to Black Springs Campsite.

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Cache for the day:

GCYPWK – Farina

Another great day in the Flinders with a 25 degree sunny day – perfect day for 4WDing. After catching up with Stony – the Park owner, we decided that we would take the Cockatoo / Dunbar Track to the south of the park.

This track involved some creek driving, ridge driving and “suicide hill”. There was some interesting and challenging driving to be had particularly in the creek beds.

Views from the ridges were spectacular – typical of the Flinders. We came across evidence of previous station life and also of ancient seabeds.

There had been some rain the week previous and there was still some in rock pools as we walked to Warrioota Springs. Even though we didn’t find the Springs (if only we had walked another 1/2 a kilometre) the scenery was overwhelming.

After spending the day out driving it was back to a campfire and camp cooking at Black Springs.

4WD Cockatoo Dunbar Track

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No caching today ….

Today was an easy start. We just had to break camp and head north 100 kms to meet up with the rest of the group that was heading up from Blackwood.

Eventually hit the road just before lunchtime, driving up to Leigh Creek to fill up and grab supplies then headed back down to Warraweena.

The others were about 20 minutes in front of us and after a 30 minute drive we arrived at Black Springs campsite. This was a great camp which was a lot greener than the surrounding area. Even had a toilet.

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Caches for the day:

GCGF3Q – The Skull

GCNR1T – Parachilna Paws