Archives: 2010 September

The Walls of China is one of the main draw cards at Lake Mungo in Willandra Lakes National Park in western NSW (New South Wales), Australia.

With flood waters flowing down the Darling River from Queensland, Lake Pamamaroo is filling and the water is flowing on through Copi Hollow to Lake Menindee and Lake Cawndilla.
Black box trees of Lake Pamamaroo, killed by the water levels of the enhanced capacity of these natural lakes, make for a stark landscape image in the [...]

Lake Menindee is part of the Menindee Lakes system in western New South Wales, (NSW). The lake is accessed fairly easily from the dirt roads that follow large distances of the lake’s perimeter.
Driving a few kilometres out along the road toward Kinchega National Park, we pulled up on top of the sand dune that borders [...]

Not far from White Cliffs in western New South Wales (NSW), heading for Wilcannia and Broken Hill, we came across Ken with his camel, Mazan and camel wagon.
Ken had been on the road for three months, traveling from the Murray River country, east of Adelaide in South Australia (SA).
Mazan had worn his soles thin and [...]

About 30 kilometres north of Wilcannia we came upon a large area of Sturt’s Desert Peas. What a great photographic opportunity!
In pristine condition, the rain and wind of recent days hadn’t knocked them around and they were at their peak. Some pods could be seen and new blooms, just opening, were common.
Luck was with us [...]

As Lesley and I looked around Wilcannia, a decaying, former great inland port,we came upon this delapidated old building which hass become a graffiti art gallery.
The gallery below contains images of the graffiti adorning the walls and the deterioration and destruction of a one time, grand building. As always, comments on the images and the [...]

Well, we got away to a late start and spent the first night at Boorawa, a good bit short of our target, Orange, on the Central Highlands.
Got to Nygnan in time to set up and get dinner on the barbie before it got too dark.
The word was that a fella was booked to sing in [...]