North of Souther Cross - Thanks Rod W

After a loose arangement made a few weeks ago to meet with Rod at Southern Cross on Saturay I took off Friday Night. I spent an absalutly soaking night at Condarnin rock just South of Yellowdine and was treated to a 4 hour Electrical storm at times very close. The next day I met up with Rod and followed him Out to Faye Bluff in the Die Hardy ranges off of the Evenston/Bullfinch rd where we made camp in the shadow of this immpressive bluff standing about 640m above sea level featuring a sheer cliff where it drops down. We spent time here climbing over it investigating the sheer cliffs and undercut caves and crackings in the layred iron rich rock which in one place makes a thin chasm about 1/2 a metre wide and 10-15m high which dissapears out of sight.
It was then onto the Helena Aurora ranges via some roads and station tracks stopping to check out old dams and minesites. We drove around the eastern side of the ranges passing by the immpressive bungalbin hill where we looked for a suspected Meteor crater shown up as a perfect circle by Google Earth. We managed to find the location but it appeared the formation was natural rather than intersteler.
It was then back to the Western side of the ranges and through a couple of decent mudholes following a pituresque track that leads to the top of the ranges where a campsite exists amongst the surprising amount of trees at the top.
Next morning fun had come to an end and it was back home via the road to Koolynobbing where we parted just South so I could head to Yellowdine after getting sent on a recce of the southern end of the Koolynobbing ranges and Lake Seabrook (wont talk about that eh Rod)
The trip was led by Rod who really knew his stuff about the area and made it more enjoyable than bumbling around trying to find places along with all the wildflowers and great scenery and even better company it was a good time