DAY 92 - RAWNSLEY PARK STATION SA

RAWNSLEY PARK STATION SA

DAY 92

HAWKER – RAWNSLEY PARK

42.35 km

Total Time: 10.30 – 15.00 (4h 30m)

Time on Bike: 3h 02m 57s

Max. Speed: 41.8 km/h

Av. Speed: 13.9 km/h


It’s hard work for every mile in this part of the world.

3 hours for 40 kilometres is fair change.

Hard, slow going, but the surroundings are superlative.

North of the Southern Flinders is completely different territory.

You know you’re in the outback when all you can hear is the ringing in your ears.

20 years of playing drums in rock bands can claim responsibility for this, but it is another world here.

Rawnsley Park Station lies around 35 km north of Hawker and 20 km south of Wilpena and it is a wonderful place to absorb the Flinders grandeur.

I’ll be staying over the weekend and climbing a 5-hour return hike Rawnsley Bluff tomorrow.

With an early start not so much a priority, things just happen when they do.

And the weather is holding – sunny, mild days on the end of cold, clear nights.

It doesn’t get any better.

The Flinders Charter from here is basically mine to write and this is what I will do.