Day 8 and 9 Hawker and Quorn

We arrived at the Hawker caravan park yesterday and after setting the van up and doing our washing we had a relaxing day with a short walk around the town and finally found the elusive Sturt Desert Pea, such a beautiful flower for such an arid environment.

Today we headed of to Quorn for our ride on the Pichi  Richi railway this ran from Quorn to Woolshed Flat and took about an hour each way and was a very relaxing way to spend a Sunday morning.

Afterwards we had lunch at the Emporium in Quorn which appeared to be a converted haberdashery. Rob also had to check out the 2 local art galleries so she was in her element, we also had to take a look at some of the old buildings in town which are beautifully made with the local stone.

 

Main Street of Quorn at 2:30 pm Sunday

On the way back to Hawker we stopped at an only homestead ruins called Kaynaka Homestead this was built in the 1800’s and again using local stone, the homestead consisted of about 8 to 10 buildings and a massive woolshed and shearers quarters, the early settlers must have been tough to live in this environment.