A NEW WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE NORTHERN FLINDERS

The Flinders Ranges in South Australia indisputably belong among the jewel cabinet of Australia’s outback tourism industry, but it’s only in the past 30 to 40 years that much of it has again become publicly accessible, with the removal of stock from some of the properties and their conversion to conservation parks and private reserves.

Warraweena Private Conservation Park, once a sheep station of 355 square kilometres, is one of those gems. Over the past two and a bit decades, since its purchase in 1996 by the non-profit conservation organisation Wetlands and Wildlife, and under the diligent guidance of manager and ranger Stony Steiner, Warraweena has been slowly returning to its former natural glory. And it’s all available to those who wish