Today we took a drive up to the north part of the Flinders Ranges. First we visited the Toy Museum in Willmington. This was a very strange place, the collection of toys was fantastic, but all very dusty and not well cared for anymore. Kids loved seeing the toys though, and it is always funny to see in a museum, toys that I used to play with as a kid.

Next we drove through to Quorn and went to the Quorn and had some lunch at the Quandong café. Must admit on first looking in, it seemed the best of the town options, but was not expecting too much. Found the food excellent, all seemed to be home made and well made.

After lunch decided we would drive north further to see the country side and the Wilpena pound.

On the way though, we also came across one of the old stations / homesteads, which was remarkably well preserved. Seems here, many places were originally built out of stone so have managed to survive very well over the years.

A pound is where an area is circle by hills. Unfortunately nobody told us you could not really see much of the pound unless you wanted to walk a couple of hours. Anyway we did find an icecream shop so at least that was a treat for the drive. There was still some good view of the local country side and the Flinders Ranges.

On the way back we crossed over Goyders Line. This was an imaginary line made by a man called Goyder that was drawn to show the land that would be OK for farming, below the line and no good for farming above the line. This was done in 1865 and apparenty this line has proven accurate over the years!

On the way back we visited one of the hotels in Quorn for dinner.

I was a bit disappointed with the Flinders Ranges. To be fair though I had heard a lot about them, and we have seen an awful lot of fantastic scenery over the last couple of months. Also it seems most of the activities involved substantial walking, which we did not really have time to do.