Our next destination was the Glen Helen Homestead Lodge with nearby Gorge, where a salad smorgasbord lunch awaited us. 
A Northern Territory tourism website presents better photos of the Glen Helen Gorge and site than I took; go here for a good look.
An interpretation panel welcomed us to the area. 
The Homestead was basic and further reinforced the idea that a Resort is not necessarily 5 star glamour. The spectacle is the landscape and the Gorge. I ate lunch outside the Homestead facing the massive cliff with the Finke River at its feet, with my back to the building – and I felt I was in the landscape. Grand. Wonderful!
Mainland 'discoveries' 