{"id":7455,"date":"2020-04-29T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7455"},"modified":"2025-03-04T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:04:38","slug":"part-7-tonys-outback-adventure-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7455","title":{"rendered":"Part 7 &#8211; Tony\u2019s Outback Adventure II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony enjoyed his time at <a href=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=5083\">Arkaroola Wildness Sanctuary<\/a> in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. We dined at the restaurant at night, went on the world-renowned Ridgetop Tour to Sillars Lookout (with Lamingtons, tea and a hair raising 3-point turn at the Lookout), observed the stars in the Observatory (there are 4 at Arkaroola) and even took a plane flight over Arkaroola and Lake Frome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Ridgetop Tour Tony got to sit in the passenger seat upfront, the rest of us bounced around in the back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We visited a few abandoned copper mines &#8211; the Ridgetop Tour track was made when mining companies where looking for uranium in earlier times. The Flinders Ranges generally and Arkaroola in particular is one the most beautiful places in Australia and it is geologically unique in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=5083\">Arkaroola <\/a>and the nearby Brachina Gorge are also home to the endangered Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby, Australia\u2019s most beautiful macropod (kangaroo or wallaby). Pictures of Arkaroola and the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7093\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our flight over Arkaroola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"595\" height=\"454\" data-attachment-id=\"3242\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Arkaroola-Air.png?fit=595%2C454\" data-orig-size=\"595,454\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Arkaroola Air\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Arkaroola-Air.png?fit=595%2C454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Arkaroola-Air.png?resize=595%2C454\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Arkaroola-Air.png?w=595 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Arkaroola-Air.png?resize=300%2C228 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"5134\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?fit=1200%2C334\" data-orig-size=\"1200,334\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Michael G Hains&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-RX100M2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1406913391&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;10.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SA May 2014 Sony &amp;#8211; 1922\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?fit=604%2C168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?resize=604%2C168\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?resize=1024%2C285 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?resize=300%2C84 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?resize=768%2C214 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SA-May-2014-Sony-1922.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony enjoyed his time at Arkaroola Wildness Sanctuary in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. We dined at the restaurant at night, went on the world-renowned Ridgetop Tour to Sillars Lookout (with Lamingtons, tea and a hair raising 3-point turn at the Lookout), observed the stars in the Observatory (there are 4 at Arkaroola) and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Part 7 &#8211; Tony\u2019s Outback Adventure II<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[116,4,64,44,52,83,21,62,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arkaroola","category-australia","category-bark","category-landscape-landscape","category-mountains","category-other","category-sa","category-textures","category-tony-stott"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Stott-Roadtrip-TS-Sony-0484-gigapixel-scale-2_00x.jpg?fit=1200%2C800","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42vG0-1Wf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7455\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}