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Arkaroola Revised – Part 2 – aerial

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Part 1 is here, with much of the commentary.

In Part 2 the images are from the surrounding Flinders Ranges, rather than Lake Froome. You get to see the extraordinary variety of rock formations of different colours and textures.

On average the images were taken from 270 to 380 metres in the air. The GPS Datalogger also gives you altitude.

 Enjoy, Viva Cristo Rey. Click on an image to see the slideshow of images at full resolution.

Arkaroola Revisited – Part 1 – aerial

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When Tony Stott and The Doc went on an adventure to the Flinders Ranges we visited Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary. One of the owners Doug Sprigg, loves to fly so we went on a flight over Lake Froome and the Flinders Ranges.

The Flinders Ranges is one of the most geologically unique places in the world. Geologists from all around the globe visit. There is an extraordinary variety of rocks twisted and bent by tectonic forces under the earth. For example, while driving in Brachina Gorge you drove over something like 700 million years of rock layers, that have been bent from the horizontal to the vertical.

One of The Doc’s favorite places to visit. Further south you have Wilpena Pound. Now back to the flight.

Tony had one camera (a Canon 5DII) and The Doc two (Canon 1DX and a Pentax 645Z), We sat on opposite sides of the plane to maximize our opportunities. When processing the images it became clear Tony often had the better side, as The Doc was often photographing into the sun. Together we got a nice mix of images.

Part 1 is below with the flight going out over Lake Froome. Lucky for us the Lake had some water still giving us extraordinary colours and textures. Lake Froome is apparently the whitest salt lake in the world and used by NASA to take various measurements.

Enjoy, Viva Cristo Rey.