From the Kanyaka ruins (41km north of Quorn on the Quorn–Hawker Rd), it's a 20-minute walk to a waterhole loomed over by the massive Death Rock. The story goes that local Aboriginal people once placed their dying kinfolk here to see out their last hours. Be respectful.


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1. Kanyaka

8.41 MILES

Out of town, derelict ruins litter the Quorn–Hawker Rd, the most impressive of which is Kanyaka, a once-thriving sheep station founded in 1851. From the…

2. Jeff Morgan Gallery

17.2 MILES

It's not so much what's in Hawker that's interesting − it's more what's around it. But if you prefer your great outdoors to be indoors (and a bit…