Lake Torrens - South Australian Arid Region - Digital Wilderness Landscapes

Digital images of Lake Torrens in outback South Australia. A wilderness photography trip via Andamooka and Yarloo in outback South Australia

Digital Landscapes

• Andamooka Desert Sunrise
• Teatree Creek on Andamooka Station
• ATV Trip to Sketching Pile
• ATV and Camp
• Dusk and Dawn at Lake Torrens
• Lake Torrens
• Sand Dune Country
• Bills Pub
• Roxby Downs Station
• ATV Quad Bike
• Cooma Snowgums
• Cooma Snowgums 02
• Point Hicks Lighthouse
• Mueller River Mouth: Croajingolong National Park

Lake Torrens - South Australian Arid Region - Digital Landscapes

Digital images of Lake Torrens in outback South Australia. A wilderness photography trip via Andamooka and Yarloo in outback South Australia

Lake Torrens is usually a dry salt lake with a muddy bottom and little hard salt crust.

Edward John Eyre was the first white man to see this country as he explored the Flinders Rangers, serching for grazing land and a path to the interior and beyond. He made three attempts to cross Lake Torrens, on the final try getting ten miles into the lake before turning back, sooner than loose the horses which were bogging up to their bellies in the mud.

To me, Lake Torrens and the surrounding desert typify all that is barren and inhospitable. Summer time temperatures cosistently rise to 48°C. To be lost or stranded out there without sufficient water would be the end.