Archives: 2007 September

Well, G’day.
You’ll understand that everything doesn’t go as planned on these ATV camping trips and I’ve had to make some adjustments, taking into account problems with the camping gear trailer toward the end of the trip.

South Eliza Hut, abandoned for many years.
I tried to return to Arcoona homestead from Pernatty homestead, via South Eliza Hut, [...]

The sand ridges are rich with an abundance of plant life from the arid region trees to little wildflowers.
Native pine is common in the sand ridge country of Andamooka. Unlike the imported pine varieties, native pine doesn’r rot readily. In fact, many of the original fence lines, made of native pine are still standing firm [...]

G’day.
My view of the sand dunes or sand ridges of the South Australian outback has more to do with the detail than the overall landscape.
The sticks, shrubs and grasses, stumps, grains of sand, wind waves and other intriguing shapes. Then there are the colours and textures. All these and more go together to compose my [...]

G’day.
Not long back from a week traveling on a motorbike (ATV or quadbike) in outback South Australia, following the great Australian explorer, John McDouall Stuart.
I was hoping to find and camp in Stuart’s camping spot at the Elizabeth, using the bearing he gave from Bottle Hill to the trees in the Elizabeth.

The sun was set [...]

The other day I traveled to Pernatty Station, an isolated and vast sheep and cattle grazing property in outback South Australia.

Old telephone in the disused Pernatty Station office.
Port Augusta and Pimba are 173km apart on the Stuart Highway. Between is miles of lonely arid region country with the odd turnoff to a station or mining [...]

This trip on the ATV (four wheel motorbike) took place on Andamooka station in the north of South Australia.

It’s sheep and cattle grazing country where homesteads are typically 50km to 100km apart.

Some of the country is sand with sand ridges up to nine metres high while other parts are very rocky. Water is scarse and [...]

A camping place for two nights, the old stockmen’s hut at Wirrda.

Filled and surrounded with history, giving rise to many untold stories of the men who lived and worked here, Wirrda Hut must have been a grand sight in it’s day.

Constructed of native pine logs, plentiful in the area, with a slate floor, perhaps [...]