Wilpena Pound is in the Southern section of the Flinders Ranges, and I had only travelled briefly in the area on the last trip. In fact the best way to see the missing roads was to take a short cut off the highway at the exit to Brachina Gorge.
On the road south there was a spectacular rainbow which got better and better as I got further south.
I took the turnoff, and after ten km or so the dirt road started to get muddier and muddier. Soon I was sliding around in 6" of mud, and thirty km to go.
What I was to find out later at the camp site was that they had a huge bucketing of rain that morning and that had turned the roads into a quagmire.
The most amazing site, however, was as I came sliding round a corner in four wheel drive, there was a Mazda 3 with a fellow out it with his camera. I stopped to see if he was ok. " Just taking some photos " in his best British accent.
How he would have got back I don't know.
Anyway I am on the road again.
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