Arkaroola’s Visitor Centre

An evening fireside talk in the Visitor Centre After an absence of fifteen years I have returned to Arkaroola to work. With my colleague Georgie Green, I am getting the Visitor Centre up and running again. We provide bushwalking, touring and 4WDriving advice, present regular evening talks, and lead guided walks. And we try to answer the many questions that visitors have. During the spring school holidays we will be running a kids activities program. Inspired by Arkaroola’s founder Reg Sprigg, we continue to support research activities... MORE

Golden Spike for the Flinders Ranges

Great discoveries are usually a combination of serendipity, excellent observation and hard work. All of the above contributed to Reg Sprigg’s discovery of a field of fossils of unknown origin above the eastern shore of Lake Torrens in 1946. The fossils were later identified as the oldest complex animals ever found on earth. Reg’s discovery challenged conventional wisdom, pushing back the dawn of multi-cellular life some 70 million years earlier. In his book GEOLOGY IS FUN Reg Sprigg wrote “The fossil group certainly now justifies... MORE