The fading daylight along the Parachilna Creek as it reaches the western plains.

Incredibly wide, vast quantities of water occasionally rocket down this stream.

To give you an idea there’s a coupe of pictures here that show the Parachilna Creek in full flood.

The River Red Gum in the foreground is roughly halfway between the two banks of the creek.

The roots of this river red gum just exude a sort of silent strength.

They need to.

On the infrequent occasions the creek turns to a raging torrent it is those roots that save the tree from being washed away.

It has obviously weathered a few floods that have exposed the roots and washed away the surrounding rocks and gravel.

Hopefully the picture above illustrates this small story.

The creek is situated a few kilometres south of Mt Chambers Gorge in the Flinders Ranges.