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  • Canoe and Kayak Camping
    Canoe or Kayak camping (also known as canoe touring or canoe tripping) is a combination of canoeing and camping. It is similar to backpacking, but canoe campers travel by canoes or kayaks. A person in a canoe can carry heavier and bulkier loads than a backpacker or kayaker, and can therefore travel farther and more easily under favorable conditions. Portaging by foot is sometimes necessary to pass between water bodies or around hazardous obstacles such as rapids or waterfalls, but most of the time canoe campers travel on water. Because they usually don't have to carry their gear on their backs all day long, canoe campers can bring more food and gear and undertake longer trips. Throwing a few more Kilograms of dried food in a backpack significantly changes a hiker's life, but a few more Kilograms in the bottom of a canoe barely make a difference. Although most experienced trippers feel comfortable paddling straight through large bodies of water, canoers typically stay within a few hundred metres of shore. In fact, since a fully loaded canoe only draws 12 to 16 cm , it can approach a rocky shore as close as arm's-length. This proximity lets the canoer observe aquatic and near-shore plants and wildlife from a perspective that walking on solid ground does not allow. Many people fish while canoe camping. Canoeing provides a very different recreational experience than backpacking. It produces less noise, with no crunching boots and bouncing packs. Maneuverability on the water, and the easy shift to portaging over land, allow canoe campers to go places that simply can't be accessed conveniently by other means of transportation. The versatility of canoe tripping allows its campers to go places and see things that they otherwise could not. There are many rivers in Australia that can be traversed by canoe
  • Wilpena Pound
    The Flinders Ranges National Park occupies much of the central Flinders Ranges.The main feature is Wilpena Pound at the southern end of the Park. Wilpena Pound has a large camping ground and the great walks into and over Wilpena Pound. You can also hike into the pound and camp within it(walkers only). It is an extremely popular park, and takes in rugged mountain scenery, peaceful timbered gorges, with plenty of wildlife, vegetation and history. Picture-perfect Edeowie and Brachina Gorges, Aroona and Bunyeroo valleys and stunning Wilpena Pound are the park's major attractions. The park is located in the between the townships of Hawker and Blinman. Its area is 95,000 ha (950 km2). Located 450 km north of Adelaide.You can obtain camping supplies in Hawker, Blinman, a small store in Wilpena Pound, Parachilna and Leigh Creek. Geologically the Flinders Ranges are some of the oldest mountain ranges on earth, with some of the oldest fossils. The are good bushwalks along the Heysen Range.