No Horizons

The Painted Hills, Anna Creek Station

Sometimes in the outback everything looks the same no matter which way you look. It's often flat with no apparent landscape features to guide you, no wonder many souls get lost and perish. The extraordinary mega Lake Eyre is a classic example with even the horizon doing a vanishing act.

Into the void, Lake Eyre South

Lake Eyre South, a place to let your imagine play.

Maybe even planes can get lost out here?

The monumental lake from the air.

The view from above the desert is extraordinary and while it is clearly vast there are many magical changes in landscape that can be seen from further afar.

The Oodnadatta Track crossing the Warriner Creek in flood. We had to wait south of here for four days while the track dried out after heavy rain. It's almost absurd to see a fast flowing river in a dry and barren landscape.

The desert, sparse, vast and beguiling from the air or the ground

It's hard to fathom this as cattle grazing country, but it remains so today. Unfortunately the SA government is easing the environmental chokes on the grazing management of this vast resource and much of what makes Australia, Australia.

Back to The Painted Hills. This incredible area is currently under private management, very successfully I might add. However it is not readily accessible to tourists, if it were it might be a very different story. I shall return with our short land-based exploration of this wonderland shortly.