Category: Outdoor

Mountain bike ride on Doctor George Mountain.

This video is part of the learning process, preparatory to my next desert trip, when I hope to do some motorbike in the sand dunes videos.
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My fear of snakes goes right back to early childhood.

This sleepy became my security from snakes for the two days that I camped at the old stockmen’s hut.

We had a black dog named Doggin, or was it Doggen or maybe Doggan.
Anyway, Doggin caught a snake. Mum killed the snake but not in time to save […]

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 […]

About 20km travel south and then west from Pernatty Homestead saw me at Red Lake, a trip on the ATV (quadbike) that took around two hours.

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Red Lake, a great place to camp and a stark landscape to photograph.

The trailer carried my tent and other camping gear, fuel, water, food and cooking utensils for […]

I camped for one night in a small hut on Andamooka Station. Maybe it was the cook’s quarters, in days gone by. Here’s the story and photos:

Late afternoon at the hut I camped in, on Andamooka Station

Several of the arid region stations have been taken over by BHP Billiton, the big mining company that runs […]

Well, the other day I headed out to Andamooka Station and got bogged in the sand on the way.

The ute bogged in the sand on the Andamooka Track.

It’s autumn here in Australia. Much of Western Australia and South Australia is experiencing hotter and drier weather than in an average year. In fact the temperatures in […]

In my search for one of the camping spots of explorer John McDouall Stuart, I visited Trig Waterhole on Teatree Creek.

The rising sun catches a teatree at the head of Trig Waterhole in Teatree Creek.

Trig Waterhole was dry as a bone when I was there but the dried up weed on the sandy floor of […]

Trig Bluff is quite a hill, rising 30 metres above the surrounding country, and table topped as are many of the hills around.

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Look closely at the centre of the Google Earth image and you’ll see the Trig Bluff picknic spot.

From the top can be seen a considerable expanse of Lake Torrens, out to […]

The sun had set and darkness was approaching as I drove out of Mildura, about 12 hours drive from home, on the way to Roxby Downs in the arid region of South Australia.
Pulling to the side among the homes of the outer suburbs of Mildura I got out my all important little green notebook ans […]

The other day I traveled to Pernatty Station, an isolated and vast sheep and cattle grazing property in outback South Australia.

Old telephone in the disused Pernatty Station office.
Port Augusta and Pimba are 173km apart on the Stuart Highway. Between is miles of lonely arid region country with the odd turnoff to a station or mining […]