DESTINATION / SOUTH AUSTRALIA
An enormous swathe of vibrant eucalypts and casuarinas stretch out before me, covering what I imagine to be the centre of a dormant volcano. Rising up all around are walls of rock so ancient it’s impossible to comprehend the geological changes they’ve “seen”. Pterosaurs would not be out of place here, gliding past these 800-million-year-old mountains. By day’s end, we’ll be over the other side of Wilpena Pound, says our guide, Arkaba conservation manager, Bruce Lawson. “Your job was to