Hill Homestead, Wilpeana Pound
The pound is enclosed with high ridges forming a circle with just one entrance point. (Here’s an image from the air) It had permanent water and formed a natural enclosure for sheep. Inside the pound is the old homestead from when it was farming property rather than National Park.
We returned by the high track which took us a little way up the pound walls.
There's that SA rock homestead again. Thanks for the aerial shot. It is a wonderful landscape, a crater I guess from yonks ago.
ReplyDeleteYes, the aerial shot adds some perspective. I'm glad they've preserved it but whoever once lived there had to have known it was a special place. Did they displace the indigenous?
ReplyDeleteThe aerial shot was very helpful to visualise where you were. I see now you are too fit to retire. lovely farm house.
ReplyDeleteThe red stone make wonderful walls.
ReplyDeleteJulie, I don't think this was a volcano
ReplyDeletePaula, here's what I found "Ikara, as the local Adnyamathana people call it, is a significant place of many sacred Aboriginal rituals, and their Dreamtime stories tell of its creation by huge serpents"
Diane, not as fit as I would like but also hoping to hold out a few more years before retiring, much as I would like to become a grey nomad.