Angorichina Station and the Flinders Ranges

From the Barossa we headed north to the outback of South Australia and to the Flinders Ranges -- specifically, to Di and Ian Fargher's Angorichina Station. Di and Ian (and their daughter Pru) are amazing hosts, and really made us feel a part of their lives for the few days we visited.

Angorichina has been in Ian's family for four generations. In addition to being a working sheep station, it also offers family accommodations and serves as a base of operations for four-wheel-drive tours in the Flinders. It's a modest drive away from the Prairie Hotel (owned by Ian's brother Ross and his wife Jane) at Parachilna, and very close to the old copper mining town of Blinman. Fossil fans will be interested to hear that it's near Ediacara (and that Ross has made some significant finds).

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Ian and Di Fargher, our hosts at Angorichina Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Ian and Diesel heading out to check part of Angorichina Station's flock; somehow Diesel manages to hang on! Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Angorichina homestead Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Main house at Angorichina homestead Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Michelle at the guest room (formerly the schoolroom) at Angorichina homestead Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Michelle and Ian in the old shearing shed at Angorichina Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Late afternoon view of Angorichina Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Late afternoon view at Angorichina Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	A euro, also called a wallaroo Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Kangaroo Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Kangaroos Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Kangaroos on the move Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Kangaroos in motion Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Wedge-tailed eagle Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Port Lincoln parrots Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Emu at Angorichina Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	A goanna Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Allen and Michelle looking for yellow-footed rock wallabies with Ian at Angorichina Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Michelle tasting watercress at a spring on Angorichina Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Ian and Michelle looking at aboriginal drawings Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Fossilized wave patterns Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Sheep near a water trough Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Ian on the dunes near Ross and Jane Fargher's Nilpena cattle station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Dunes and the Flinders seen from Nilpena Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Solar-powered pump at Nilpena Station Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Buildings at Nilpena (some have been used as film locations) Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Arthur, a ranger at Flinders National Park whose day job involves eliminating destructive non-native animals in the park. (While we were there, portions of the park were closed so that wild goats could be shot.) Arthur's also a talented musician and storyteller. Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Michelle and Allen acting out characters from one of Arthur's songs Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Aboriginal petroglyphs indicating a camp with water visited by a possum, a euro, and other critters Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Blinman, site of one of the few successful copper mines in the Flinders Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Sunset views in the Flinders Ranges Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Sunset view Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Sunset Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Ian at the controls, ready for a sightseeing flight to Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	The "backbone" north of Wilpena Pound Flinders Ranges (South Australia)


Angorichina homestead. We're landing on the track just past the garage Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Get ready for the Prairie Hotel, home of the FMG (Feral Mixed Grill) Flinders Ranges (South Australia)

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