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Dingo Tracks – Andamooka Waterhole – Outback South Australia.
Walking in the sand dune near my camp at Andamooka Waterhole this morning, as I dropped down the western side, the side furtherst from my camp, I saw numerous little animal tracks, no doubt left overnight in the damp sand.
The tracks were concentrated in this one area [...]

It was quite late in the day by the time I got away from Arcoona Homestead on the quadbike, heading north as part of my outback South Australia photography adventure.
With traveling time for the day short, I was pushing the limits a bit in that I saw a good camping spot with some firewood and [...]

Riding the quadbike, I carry the P&S camera down my shirt, hanging by the strap around my neck, of course.
The SLR camera is in the box on the rear rack and takes a bit more to get out to use.
This set of images is a bit rough, many of them taken while wearing my stack [...]

Here’s a great camp tucker recipe from my wife and refined for outback use by myself.
Corn and Tuna Pancake
Ingredients:
1 small tin of corn kernals
1 small tin of tuna
Half a shake bottle of pancake mix
A little extra water
Method
Shake the dry pancake mix a bit to loosen it up and tip into a suitable bowl.
Add the corn [...]

Clean up day today! Yes, clean up me and all my dirty clothes.
The day started overcast, but the sun did break through half an hour after sunrise, for a short time and has broken through the increasing cloud several times.
No rain since daylight.
Well, about mid morning when it was the warmest it’s been all day, [...]

Although the light was a bit ordinary this morning, I rode the quadbike down to Lake Torrens on Arcoona station. Well, the light came good a couple of times for a short time, allowing for some great shots of the remains of ancient trees that have finished their life.
These trees, some sort of teatree, by [...]

Riding around Red Lake on Arcoona station I came across many stone flakes, discarded by a once flourishing Aboriginal community in this area of outback South Australia. I even found one rock that looked like the one from which flakes had been chiped.
There really were hundreds of these Aboriginal artifacts about, easily found.
Red Lake is [...]

All kitted out for safety on the quadbike, ATV (all terrain vehicle). Helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, sturdy boots.

I also carry a first aid kit, spare water and fuel, a come-along winch and pegs, satellite phone, GPS, paper maps, compas, spark plugs, puncture repair, tools and more incidentals.
Yes, I’ve been stuck a few times and [...]

Well, it may look a bit rough to you but you can be sure it went down well after an afternoon on the bike in some pretty rough country. Three courses and a couple of cups of black tea.

Well, I’ve got reasonably well set up overlooking Lake Richardson on Arcoona station in outback South Australia. I put a flag on the external antanna pole in the hope it might make my camp easier to find from a distance, but the wind was moving the pole around quite a bit so I removed the [...]