We are at Wilpena Pound for the day today, so we decided to walk into Hill's Homestead in the middle of the pound. For those not so familiar with the pound it's a ring of ranges around a beautiful flat plain in the middle . No, it wasn't formed by a volcano, but rather the movement of plates / fault lines, etc. The aboriginal people say it's 2 serpents that joined together head to tail to form the ring.
Anyway the Homestead was built by a family who initially ran sheep in the pound, but then switched to wheat. There is a documented story at the homestead told from the point of view of a young girl who looked after her father and brothers in the homestead from age 12. In one part she talks of the numerous dingoes in the area who she could hear crunching bones outside at night.
From the homestead we walked up to a lookout within the pound, which was great to give you an overall view of the area.
For the Ox's: As an aside, we met up with 2 very friendly families. One of the dad's use to farm cattle and sheep in northern Queensland. The say how it was really hard to farm sheep, particularly due to wedge tail eagles who would swoop down and take the lambs (apparently they'd have a crack at claves too - fancy that)
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