Category: Environment

This is a guest post by Lesley McArthur
We waited a long time, years, for the rains to come, and come they did.
This is a photo of the river at Frogs Hollow, taken in between storms and showers, with my Mamiya RB67 Medium Format Camera.
Everywhere was wet, with puddles and fast moving water, so had to [...]

Well, I’d got set up at Thurra River camp in Croajingolong National Park, had some lunch and a well earned rest, and felt like a wander along the beach with the digital camera.

Two nights spent at River Bend Caravan Park, near Echuca and Moama in north east Victoria, practically on the border with New South Wales. Our camp is on the Goulburn River and the Murray River is only a kilometre or two away, over the flood plain forest of redgum and what I guess is grey [...]

We hadn’t long set up camp at River Bend Caravan Park, about twenty kilometres out of Echuca, when I could see what a love filled place it is and I couldn’t help but admire Alan who so openly declared his love for Lynne.
As I mused over the circumstances of the carving, obviously the work of [...]

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.

Recent good rain in Bega has not only alleviated the drought, it has caused minor erosion on some bare dirt in the Bega Civic Centre gardens, exposing a bit of steel, just waiting for someone to trip on. Here’s the story of this archaeological discovery.

Archaeological discovery, an old horse shoe discarded by the Bega blacksmith, [...]

Painting the camping boxes ready for desert travel
A pleasent, sunny, winter afternoon here in Bega. The camping boxes are finished apart fron a coat of paint.

Painting the ATV camping boxes Roxby red.
Mind you, it’s hardly the best colour in the event that someone has to come looking for a lost outback photographer. At Roxby Downs [...]

Well, G’day.
As you may know, planning is well underway for a wilderness landscape photography trip to the west of Lake Torrens, in September.
Here’s the link for a map of the area, sent to me by the president of the John McDouall Stuart foundation, who has been most helpful as I plan for this next trip [...]

ATV camp trailer set up for a trial.
Preparations are coming along well for a wilderness travel, camping and photography trip in September.
The ATV engine has been rebuilt. The ATV camping trailer has also been rebuilt to overcome the weaknesses of the previous model.

Strong, highly flexible coupling to allow for very uneven country and trailer [...]

The fabrication of parts for rebuilding the ATV camp trailer.
As the time for another outback South Australian photography trip draws near, the urgency of rebuilding the small trailer that carries the camping gear intensifies.
On the previous trip, some of the country proved beyond the endurance of the construction, a crack developing in the draw bar [...]