A line of volcanos – the oldest having erupted about 20,000 years ago
Artist George French Angas In his 1844 journal describes Mount Schank ‘Heaps of black cellular lava lie at the base of the crater, which rises very abruptly from the plain to an elevation of about 700 feet: the outer sides being clothed with grasses and scattered over with she-oak trees ….’
Mount Schank taken from our campsite. This volcano last erupted 4500 years ago, hence its eruptions have been reported by the Bunganditji people, and woven into their Dreamtime Legends.
View part way up the slope of Mount Schank – underlying the plain is limestone, an ancient seabed.
Rim pathway and native grasses ?
Mount Schank crater - looking benign
Sheaoaks growing on the rim again, as recorded when the first Europeans arrived
Black Box – A beautiful tree with a dark, rough fissured bark similar to a cork tree.
Black wallaby seen in this area of South Australia
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