Archives: 2009 July

Streaky Bay
Discovered and named by Matthew Flinders, Streaky Bay figured as a lifesaver to two of Australias great inland explorers.
In 1840, Edward John Eyre and his party found a permanent waterhole near Streaky bay as they entered the more difficult stage of Eyre’s crossing of the Nullabor Plain.
Then, in 1858, John McDouall Stuart with his [...]

Pamamaroo Lake Sunrise
The sun rose over Pamamaroo Lake, part of the Menindee Lakes, as I guess it does every morning.
The air was clear and still, the stars having given way to the brilliance of a colourful dawn and the cresent moon, still quite visible, was an integral element of the landscape.
Lake Pamamaroo has been dry [...]

Menindee Lake
Dry as a bone since 2002, about seven years, Menindee Lake was rather a disappointment but not an absolute loss from a photographer’s view point.
The lake looks to be about ten kilometres wide, more or less round, with the scrub of the far bank only just visible from the sand dune on which the [...]

Late afternoon at Pamamaroo Lake put the sun low in the western sky with a great light on the dead trees, river redgums, of the dry lake bed.
The outer limits of the lake were once populated by thriving river redgums, perpetuated by the natural cycle of flood and dry, but now they’re all dead, the [...]

Wilcannia
Having enquired of a fellow traveler, we found Wilcannia to be as said: very few white fellas in the main street and a significant area of the town boarded up, the glass being smashed.