Archives: 2008 April

I camped one night in the tent, near the sheep yards and crutching shed at Beda.

A couple of sheets of iron over the bike kept it fairly dry.

The morning dawned overcast, so apart from a few photographs as the sun rose over the horizon, and below the cloud cover, it wasn’t much good for my [...]

Well, I was on South Gap Station in the arid region of South Australia. The turn-off from the Stuart Highway is about midway between Port Augusta and Pimba. Then it’s 60km of reasonable dirt, station roads.

My camp at Gum Creek, near Lake Torrens on South Gap Station, darkness having overtaken me.

Leaving my ute at the [...]

Well, I’m home from my trip to outback South Australia.

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My place in Bega New South Wales

My sleeping bag was filthy and smelly from many nights sleeping pretty rough. It was rather dirty from the red dust of the outback. Dirty inside and dusty outside. It was also rather smelly from the many warm [...]

I camped on Pernatty Station in the Northern Pastoral District of South Australia in the Australian Outback.

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Salt waterholes and the delta where Elizabeth Creek flows into Pernatty Lagoon in outback South Australia.

Camping in the shade of a densely foliated myall tree would have been nice, but the prickly bushes everywhere took the edge [...]