Paws and Reflect

  Feeling bombarded? Full of the Flinders on Facebook? Whimpering over Wilpena Pound? Fear not, I'm here to give you a smidge of the history and amateur geology, and also what we got up to in between all the photos. After some planning and pondering we decided now was the best time to visit the Flinders Ranges, and mapped ourselves a neat little loop of approximately 300km taking in as much as we could with our restrictions i.e Dennis! Much of the area is designated National Park, and so no domestic dogs allowed, but we realised there were also options to combat this whilst still staying within the rules....we like rules! Current climate was also a factor in our decision to venture forth now; generally warm sunny days and cool nights. As can be seen on the route map we had mainly sealed (tarmac) roads up either side of the Ranges and a short section of around 32km of unsealed (rock, dust, gravel in various states of repair...or not). The roads do not come under National Park rules,

  Sheep Hills, Victoria.  My all time favourite.  Artist: Adnate A Von Blog. In January 2020 we came across our first piece of Silo Art, it was at Yelarbon in Queensland and we, literally, came around a bend and saw this huge piece of art work on the side of a grain silo. Wow!  Most silos are around 30m-40m high and, of course, tubular (is that even a word) so being able to paint an image that is both perspectively correct and 'good', hell that's something isn't it? Yelarbon, Queensland.  Our first introduction to silo art depicts a young boy at play when the 'drought breaks'. Artist: Jordache Castillejos & Jordan Bruce The reason for me writing this particular blog is that the other week I completed a questionnaire for  Griffith University researchers who are running the first ever national   silo art survey   to determine the impacts of this uniquely Australian art movement on both visitors and local communities. There is no doubt silo art draws tourists,