Category: Outback Travel

I’ve camped in Yeltacowie Homestead a couple of times. My first visit to Yeltacowie coincided with a visit by two great old timers, Ernie Ash and John Barber.
Watching the Fire in the Metters Stove

You see, Yeltacowie homestead has been abandoned for several years and these two mates were making the trip for old time’s sake, [...]

Heading east across the Nullarbor Plain and then north through Central Australia? Or maybe in the reverse direction?
Google Map of the Short Cut from Ceduna to Glendambo via Kingoonya
View Directions to Glendambo, South Australia in a larger map
Well, you can cut off a lot of kilometres and see some great outback country at the same [...]

Lesley and I visited Menindee Lakes in outback NSW, Australia, on our recent photography trip. Here is an album of images, mostly dead trees with a few wildflowers thrown in.
Claire has made some comments, below, and has kindly sent this great macro shot of a bee foraging on the Patterson’s Curse, near her home.
Hope you [...]

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.

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 [...]

Well, I’ve gotta tell ya that Nicky, my grandson, was the best outback camping adventure mate you would hope for.

He hooked into the jobs such as setting up camp, getting the beds ready, collecting fire wood, packing up to move on in the morning, and he’s a pretty good one match fire lighter, too. Together, [...]

Well, I’ve got a few spare wheels and tyres ready for the coming outback Australia trip on the motorbikes: my Kawasaki Bayou KLF300B and Nicky’s Suzuki JR80.
Two spare wheels for the ute and one for the big trailer.
On my last trip I did a tyre on the ute on a rock on the road in [...]

We’re leaving in a week for our outback adventure trip. That is, my grandson Nicky will accompany me this time on his Suzuki JR80.
With good preparation, the things that may go wrong are kept to a minimum. A few new tools will give us good security.
A new tyre pump has made a difference already as [...]

Well, I’ve always been a bit worried about the ramps slipping during loading the ATV with just a small bit of timber screwed to the top underside to hold them in place.
So I did a rebuild; fairly common, huh!
Now I have a good, solid, non slip lip that won’t let me (or the quadbike) down, [...]