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Old Bakery Stone Hut

    The three "must see"  regions of South Australia  -  Barossa Valley, Clare Valley and...........

   About our region -  the beautiful Southern Flinders Ranges   of  South Australia

To the traveller.........

You are now entering the historic pioneer way of our early settlers.

Just 75km north of Clare you enter the Rocky River Valley at Gladstone, a major crossroads with Burra and Jamestown to the east, Highway One and Crystal Brook to the west.  From Gladstone you travel north through the town of Laura situated on the banks of the Rocky River.

The tiny village of Stone Hut is just 7kms north of Laura and is the home of the Old Bakery.  From Stone Hut you can access a bitumen road all the way to Jamestown in the east.

Just 7kms north of Stone Hut the township of Wirrabara is situated on the banks of the Rocky River with its beautiful and historic forest.  Continuing north along the pioneer way you reach the crest of the Port Germain Gorge at Murraytown and then on to Melrose at the foot of Mt. Remarkable. 

With the Flinders foot hills to the west you now enter the Beautiful Valley and finally the township of Wilmington at the northern extremity of the pioneer way.  Wilmington is a crossroads with Orroroo and Broken Hill to the east, Quorn and Wilpena to the north and Port Augusta through Horrocks Pass to the west.

Spear Creek Country, west of Wilmington

                                                                                                                       Stone Hut Cottages, Stone Hut

  Big gums at foot of Mt. Remarkable

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 Wirrabara Forest                                                                                                 Stables at the original "Stone Hut"

                                                                                                                     Golden wheat fields at the foot of Mt. Remarkable

The way we were......In 1836 Mary Thomas wrote home

to her brother in England, "you will realise that house-

keeping is no joke here" probably one of the understatements

of the century!                                                                                             

....the manner and customs of the Australians are a

perpetual challenge to the range of temperature in

which they live....Dr. Philip Muskett  (1893)

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