Flinders Ranges 3 - Stokes Hill Lookout

This is a beautiful lookout point just outside Wilpena Pound. We thought the views there at sunset were so spectacular we woke up early and went back there for sunrise.

The vegetation here is quite different from the Wilpena Pound area although it is just about 15 kms north of the Pound area by dirt road. It is mostly spinifex, a kind of very prickly grass which grows in clumps in a lot of outback Australia. May look cushiony but don't try to sit on them. There are also some grass-trees or Xanthorrhoea around.

Stokes Hill is also a reliable site to see Short-tailed Grasswrens. These little birds run around on the ground an hide in the protection of the spinifex.