These are absolutely amazing. I have never seen anything like it in my life..About 39k south of the quiet seaside town of Streaky Bay stands a rock formation called Murphys Haystacks. The origin of the name is interesting in itself but the rocks or "inselbergs" that are the haystacks are even more fascinating. Made up of pink [some call it red] Hiltaba granite, so named after a sheep station situated some way north-east, the haystacks have stood on top of the earth in their present form for nearly 34,000 years.The story behind the naming of Murphys Haystacks is quite true. Charlie Mudge the mail coach driver did exist [see The Mail Run]. So to the Scottish agricultural advisor whose name, despite a reasonable amount of research, escapes us. The agricultural advisor was certainly in the region, promoting tillage of the country to produce better crop yields. It is said that the Scotsman knew what the "haystacks" really were and was being flippant. Whatever his reasoning, the land surrounding the haystacks was owned at the time by Denis Drinan Murphy, so "Murphys Haystacks" it became. The name stuck
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