After a long day on the road, we camped overnight at Wearing Gorge in the Flinders Ranges. Having received good rain in the previous few weeks, the landscape became more green and lush the further west we pushed. The next morning we had a leg stretch at Blinman, before proceeding down the Parachilna Gorge.
The grass was so green in places it almost hurt our eyes to look at it!
On our previous visit, we had promised the boys a meal at the Prairie Hotel. Unfortunately it was closed - and perhaps that was a good thing... (See here: http://project2014australia.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/wilpena-pound-and-rawnsley-park.html).
Sadly with any highly anticipated activity, we were a bit disappointed with the Prairie Hotel, Parachilna. It had been renovated without taste in a way which had destroyed all former character. There was no bar, save a glimpse at what could have been, now filled not with taps, but a till. The walls were covered in expensive art for sale, with only the occasional piece eliciting pleasure. And the meals were something else again. Trying to be inner city chic, the meals would have been more fitting in inner city Hipsterville. Sorry Prairie Hotel Parachilna, we won't be back.
