Archives: 2008 March

On a previous trip to Red Lake, the wind, the dust and the flies made it unbearable. But the few quick photos that I’d taken were worthwhile and a look about had revealed a stark and captivating landscape with the dead, native pines, red sandhills, the barron, red lake bed and the brilliant blue sky [...]

About 20km travel south and then west from Pernatty Homestead saw me at Red Lake, a trip on the ATV (quadbike) that took around two hours.

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Red Lake, a great place to camp and a stark landscape to photograph.

The trailer carried my tent and other camping gear, fuel, water, food and cooking utensils for [...]

I camped for one night in a small hut on Andamooka Station. Maybe it was the cook’s quarters, in days gone by. Here’s the story and photos:

Late afternoon at the hut I camped in, on Andamooka Station

Several of the arid region stations have been taken over by BHP Billiton, the big mining company that runs [...]

Well, the other day I headed out to Andamooka Station and got bogged in the sand on the way.

The ute bogged in the sand on the Andamooka Track.

It’s autumn here in Australia. Much of Western Australia and South Australia is experiencing hotter and drier weather than in an average year. In fact the temperatures in [...]

In my search for one of the camping spots of explorer John McDouall Stuart, I visited Trig Waterhole on Teatree Creek.

The rising sun catches a teatree at the head of Trig Waterhole in Teatree Creek.

Trig Waterhole was dry as a bone when I was there but the dried up weed on the sandy floor of [...]

Trig Bluff is quite a hill, rising 30 metres above the surrounding country, and table topped as are many of the hills around.

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Look closely at the centre of the Google Earth image and you’ll see the Trig Bluff picknic spot.

From the top can be seen a considerable expanse of Lake Torrens, out to [...]

It was about 1.00am and between Renmark and Morgan that I pulled into a truck parking bay for the remainder of the night.

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I camped east of Overland Corner, between Renmark and Morgan.

Plenty of space, with only one semi trailer there, I parked the ute near the edge of the graveled area, spreading out [...]

The sun had set and darkness was approaching as I drove out of Mildura, about 12 hours drive from home, on the way to Roxby Downs in the arid region of South Australia.
Pulling to the side among the homes of the outer suburbs of Mildura I got out my all important little green notebook ans [...]

G’day. I’m heading off for my next outback trip in a few days, traveling the country west of Lake Torrens in South Australia.

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I’ll be following the route, as far as it can be established, of the explorer, John McDouall Stuart. He traveled in the area in 1858 and once he’d been on the [...]