At the top of Mount Poole, about 15km out from Milparinka.
Built by Captain Charles Sturt & men of his expedition while they were camped nearby at Depot Glen for several months during the drought of 1845, to "give them something to do".
Sturt's 2nd in charge, James Poole died of scurvy at Depot Glen.
Sturt wrote in his diary in regards to the cairn, "I little thought when I was engaged in that work, that I was erecting Mr Poole's monument, but so it was, that rude structure looks over his lonely grave, and will stand for ages as a record of all we suffered in the dreary region to which we were so long confined".
The hike up there was pretty rugged & steep, but we were rewarded with views of vast nothingness, but nonetheless amazing.
Awesome country view and capture. ( But I still preffer ours.)
(Yes. It`s growing like this for many years and have several more trees growing in pots.) https://365project.org/pyrrhula/365/2020-07-02
(Yes. It`s growing like this for many years and have several more trees growing in pots.) https://365project.org/pyrrhula/365/2020-07-02