{"id":746,"date":"2009-03-22T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T02:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/?p=746"},"modified":"2009-03-22T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T02:49:43","slug":"brachina-gorge-flinders-ranges-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/brachina-gorge-flinders-ranges-national-park\/746","title":{"rendered":"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-729 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3084.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brachina Gorge, located in the\u00c2\u00a0Flinders Ranges National Park, is a unique place that allows you to travel in time to 500-600 millions years ago to explore geological history of the region and our planet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-731 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3101.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Road through the gorge leads through 130 millions years of history and passes numerous geological layers formed when the whole region was a bottom of the ocean. About 500 million years ago these layers were uplifted and formed a massive rock folding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-735 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3117.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following erosion process created the gorge &#8211; a corridor that leads through the time and allows exploration\u00c2\u00a0of these rock layers and periods of time when they were created.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-730 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3098.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along the road you&#8217;ll see information boards describing\u00c2\u00a0geological features, climate details and approximate timeframes.<\/p>\n<p>To get the most from this travel through time, I&#8217;d recommend driving from the east to west, starting your journey from the intersection of the Blinman Road and Brachina Gorge Road -\u00c2\u00a0this way you will see\u00c2\u00a0the history of this place in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-734 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3108.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In general, this 20 kilometre unsealed road is suitable for 2WD vehicles, but I&#8217;d recommend a 4WD &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to cross couple creeks and pass over some rocky patches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-728 \"  itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/_mg_3082.jpg\" alt=\"Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For campers, Brachina Gorge offers a number of well-built camping grounds where everybody can stay overnight enjoying these magnificent rocks from the\u00c2\u00a0Cambrian period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brachina Gorge, located in the\u00c2\u00a0Flinders Ranges National Park, is a unique place that allows you to travel in time to 500-600 millions years ago to explore geological history of the region and our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[21,178,113,239,20,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yktravelphoto.com\/places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}