4x4 Magazine Australia

OUTBACK STATIONS & CORRUGATIONS

“Lisn’t about the destination. It’s about all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”

When heading north from Melbounre our first outback camp was at Red Banks Conservation Park just outside of Burra in South Australia, before heading in to the Flinders Ranges for three peaceful nights. This proved to be a pefect short stay in this natural wonderland and rugged beauty.

The Flinders Ranges is an ancient landscape. Think towering peaks, granite gorges millions of years old, tracks that encompass dry riverbeds and majestic, gnarly gumtrees that look as though they could talk to you. Everyone we’d met had told us how busy it was in the major centres of Rawnsley Park Station and Wilpena Pound, but we found that the station stays were almost always quiet and accessible.

Our station stay at Edeowie on the western side of the Flinders is a brilliant way to begin an outback odyssey. This sheep

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