Escape from the Flinders!

Day 12 – Friday 9th April
This morning we are waiting for the Brachina East Gorge to subside, today is definitely a lay day (surfing competition speak for “do nothing” due to conditions), as you see last night at 2pm it began to rain & continued with heavier rain at 4pm. Around that time Vanessa awoke to claim that she heard water flowing in the previously bone dry gorge/creek bed, Jamie thought Vanessa was sleep walking/dreaming again. She was right.
By 8am the water flow was a raging torrent (& the rain has ceased) and we had decided that we would wait the waters out – there was no other choice!
However, some other campers has different ideas and we decided to follow them out around the mountain rather than stay another night just in case in rained again.
We came out of the Flinders at about 2pm – after coming across many four wheel drives that couldn’t pass through the rivers that were gushing through the gorges. We had to come out the scenic way and were surprised at the amount of cars that were still driving though – we found out that the park rangers hadn’t done their research and had told drivers that the roads were passable. (It wasn;t until the following day that they closed these roads for the next week!!)
We decided to head to Blinman – as per our original plan, with the hope to get through to Parachilna….
We arrived at Blinman for a delicious Steak and onion pie and Quandong icecream! YUM! We were told be the lady in the general store that the road to Angorachina/Parachilna had been closed so we started to work out what to do for the evening….until we had a chat to the Blinman publican who told us the roads were fine..
We decided to take his word for it and travelled on with the plan to stay at Angorachina and move onto Parachilna the following day.
It was a hairy drive – Large rocks were all over the road, some roads had crumbled by the side and deep rivets had formed due to heavier trucks driving through the mud. However, being the troopers we are we got through to Angorachina only to find we could go no further.
We were a bit upset by this news seeing as we had driven over all the rocks and rivets….and hoped the river would miraculous dry up over night but alas, it did not.

Check out the before and after shots of the creek!!