Category Archives: Waterholes

Having battled to get the spectacular Stubbs waterhole into perspective in the previous photograph, it is now easier to concentrate on the actually water hole without the massive rock face it sits beneath.

Nevertheless the other surrounding cliffs provide a wonderful setting for this waterhole.

Over the recent drought years this was a mostly dry and austere landscape. It’s amazing what good rains will do. The rocks seem redder, the trees and other vegetation very lush and green.

This is still the Arkaroola Creek at Stubbs, where it flows around to the right in the first picture.

With sand dunes and salt and tiny little towns the focus of my attention this past week, it was a bit of an effort to come back to these photographs but easier that starting on the process of dealing with over 1500 new photos.

Another perspective of this well-known Flinders Ranges landmark.

Echo Camp Waterhole….one of the many spectacular or tranquil permanent waterholes along the Arkaroola Creek, northern Flinders Ranges.

For the next five posts a feature on the beautiful waterholes of the Flinders Ranges.

There’s plenty more than five but I’ll stick to just a few.

Yudnamutana Waterhole, western side of the northern Flinders, Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary.

Another look at this beautiful waterhole on the Arkaroola Creek in the northern Flinders ranges.

A peaceful yet almost cathedral like place at any time of the day.

Because the sun has to get above high hills to the east, there seems to be only a short window for taking good images. That’s about an hour after dawn.

Once the sun gets too high it washes out the colours of the rocks and in the afternoon it’s in deep shadow.

I thought the photograph above captured the essence of the place best.

However here’s a jump to an earlier post of Water on the Rocks and another couple of efforts can be seen at WaterHole Study

You might have a different opinion.

Nooldoonooldoona Waterhole, Arkaroola is one of the most beautiful waterholes in the northern Flinders Ranges.

Yet it’s not easy to portray its full beauty in one photograph, mainly because a ninety degree turn in the creek is involved.

It’s easily accessible and I have visited it many times. Two pictures posted earlier click here show it from a couple of different angles.

The junction of the Arkaroola and Wild Dog Creeks is only a few metres from the waterhole, so in flood the amount of water flowing here is massive and can be up to 10 or 12 metres high.

So much water can pass through this ravine that the two boulders in this photograph, which weigh many tonnes have been moved some distance by the force.

What’s really remarkable though is how the trees survive all this turmoil.