The photo below was made in the early morning in the Balcanoona Creek bed in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park in South Australia in the winter of 2021. The Balcanoona pastoral Station was acquired by the park in 1982 and is in Adnyamathanha country.
It was the colours, textures and light that caught my eye.
I was there for 6 days walking throughout the Vulkathunha- Gammon Ranges National Park with friends under the auspices of ARPA bushwalkers. This ARPA event was known as the Balcanoona Camp, and we were based at the old shearers quarters at Balcanoona Station, which is now the HQ of the national park. This was my first time with the ARPA bushwalkers and I was a C grade walker. I wanted to be able to have some time to take photos, and to do so whilst walking through the ranges on the various hiking trails.