ROCK TRAILS & ROCK ART
IT WAS ONE of the best ridgeline drives I’ve ever done. The long, relatively easy drive up the wide crest of the mountain we were on was interspersed with lumpy, rocky steps that demanded you tear your eyes from the view and concentrate on the wheel marks wandering between the rocks and boulders on the little-used track. At the crest it was just a short walk to the lip of the cliff that made for one hell of a viewing point.
To the west was the shiny white expanse of a distant Lake Torrens, while closer to our eerie-like vantage point, and in much the same direction, were the low peaks of Mt Deception, Termination Hill and Mt North-West. These were all named by Edward John Eyre on his attempt in 1840 to break through what he thought was a continuous ring of salt lakes that encircled the northern end of the Flinders Ranges.
Looking south you could see the sawtooth ramparts of Wilpena Pound and, a little nearer, the shark-fang peak of Patawarta Hill poked above a closer line of lower, less dominant but still quite rugged hills. To the north-east Mt Hack
