Yesterday morning we arrived at reception for our eight o'clock pick up to take us to the start of the Acacia Ridge Trail that several people had recommended to us. We were dropped off a few kilometres out from the village and pointed in the direction of the start of the trial and then we were off up the side of the mountain in search of the next marker. The walk took us along the edge of the ridge where we had to climb over huge boulders and along the rocky p...

After leaving Adelaide yesterday morning we travelled north for a few hours until we reached Port Augusta, the self proclaimed "crossroads of Australia" translated as meaning "there is absolutely nothing to do here but you have to come through this way to get to wherever you are going - in every possible direction". From here we veered of to the north east towards the Flinders Ranges for another several hundred kilometres until we reached the ...