Back from Flinders Ranges.

[Astroman]

Hi all,

I am now back from a great 5 days in the Flinders Ranges, which I spent with my wife, kids (2 boys) and two other couples and their kids. The campsite was located at warren gorge which is a beautiful area, although it has been deforrested quite a bit which just makes it look like an area in the Adelaide Hills now.

I was amazed at the amount of stars I could see up there, I didn't bother putting a mag limit on it but it definately would have been around 6-7mag. Being closer to 7 than 6. I was even more surprised at 10:33pm when M31 put it's head over the hills for a glimpse. I got out my Bimocular I made (binocular made into a small refractor) and it looked awesome with a 25mm eyepiece in. I called my wife over to show her and she promptly said after looking, "thats nice dear" hrmmmmm.

I spent little time looking at the stars unfortunately, it was more a family get away sort of thing. I did manage to get a few pics of the area.

I even had a chance to do a little of my other hobby, Geocaching.

[iceman]

Looks like a beautiful spot Andrew! Great pics too.

[Astroman]

Here is another pic of me geocaching :P

http://www.saweather.net/temp/andycache.jpg

[h0ughy]

Nice pictures Andrew, I like tree stumps with ears. What is geocaching

[acropolite]

Don't tell h0ughy, especially as there's a 31mm nagler in the cache.......:P

[Astroman]

If you goto www.geocaching.com or www.geocaching.com.au it gives you all the info on geocaching, it's basically a treasure hunt using a GPS receiver.

[h0ughy]

Thanks Andrew!

[asimov]

Glad you enjoyed your trip Andrew..But where's the pics of the yellow-footed rock wallaby, Hmmmm? Did you see any at all?

[Astroman]

ummmm errrrrrrr yeah, there were heaps of them, unfortunately everytime I saw them I didn't have the camera. Just before Sunset they came out and hopped all over the place, but once they sensed you they took off and disappeared into the scrub.

[ving]

geocaching is fun :)
I planted one in the souther highlands a couple of weeks ago :)

nice pogona barbatus :)