| Australia - from Arkaroola to Wilpena |
This section contains many pics of kangaroos and wallabies. Kangaroos tend to inhabit plains while wallabies are more common in rocky terrain and dense forest. But honestly, I'm not sure I'm the skilled person to tell them apart, so the way I labeled them is partly random! Sorry! If you do spot mistakes, please tell me!
The track from Arkaroola to Wilpena goes thru Blinman, which was a mining
town and has many old looking buildings -old for Australia, I mean-. But the
copper mine isn't active anymore, and now the population is below 20 (while
there were 1000 inhabitants around 1870). We reached this town after 6pm.
The general store was then closed, and we were running low on supplies. We
headed for the restaurant, but they had a Xmas dinner organized that night
and it wasn't possible to get normal food. We could, however, join the party.
Which we did. There were several different groups so it wasn't that bad. Most
of the people worked for the national parks. The food was far from great,
but we had a good laugh!!