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Located on the western edge of the Bukulara Range and covering just 1200 hectares, Carabirini Conservation Reserve was not particularly large. The reserve sat in a transition zone where the sub-tropical region met the semi-arid, and it harbored plants and wildlife specific to both regions. Incorporating both open woodlands and sandstone escarpments, the singular most prominent feature of the reserve had to be the Lost City, a spectacular display of sandstone pinnacles haphazardly bunched together like a conglomeration of city buildings. Estimated to have formed over 1.4 billion years and thought to have once been an initiation site for young aboriginal boys about to enter manhood, many of the ragged, weathered spires stood up to 25 metres tall, standing sentinel over the surrounding co
