Category: Wilderness

The outback adventure and photography trip planned for April 2010 came a step closer with a practice load up of the ute and trailer.

With another outback trip coming up in April 2010, only four and a half months away, it’s time for a partial re-build of the trailer.

I’ve revisited some photos from my recent trip to Thurra Dunes in the Croajingolong National Park in Gippsland, Victoria.
I’d call it rather heavy editing of the colours, some using Irfanview and others using the GIMPas my editing programmes.
My images had left me rather disappointed and it was only just the other day that the reason [...]

Well, I’ve been camping at Aragunnu with some of the family for a few days.
View Larger Map Aragunnu beach with the rocky bays.
Aragunnu is in the Mimosa Rocks National Park in southern New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Mimosa Rocks is mostly a coastal national park, extending a few kilometres inland in a few spots, but hugging [...]

On a previous trip to Red Lake, the wind, the dust and the flies made it unbearable. But the few quick photos that I’d taken were worthwhile and a look about had revealed a stark and captivating landscape with the dead, native pines, red sandhills, the barron, red lake bed and the brilliant blue sky [...]

The sand ridges are rich with an abundance of plant life from the arid region trees to little wildflowers.
Native pine is common in the sand ridge country of Andamooka. Unlike the imported pine varieties, native pine doesn’r rot readily. In fact, many of the original fence lines, made of native pine are still standing firm [...]

G’day.
My view of the sand dunes or sand ridges of the South Australian outback has more to do with the detail than the overall landscape.
The sticks, shrubs and grasses, stumps, grains of sand, wind waves and other intriguing shapes. Then there are the colours and textures. All these and more go together to compose my [...]

The camping gear boxes mounted on the top level of the ATV camp trailer have a volume about half that of a 6 x 4 foot camping trailer.

ATV camp trailer with a gross weight of 250kg.
That’s not bad space for one wilderness traveler.
The heavy camping supplies will be on the trailer floor, keeping the centre [...]

With a spare ATV wheel mounted on the back of the trailer, I’ll be right should I puncture a tyre on the ATV or the trailer.

The six wheels on the ATV and camping gear trailer are interchangeable. The front, narrower rims with smaller tyres are the odd ones out, but the hole pattern is the [...]

I should put new tyres on the ATV before my coming wilderness travel photography trip.

Front ATV tyres are a bit old.
But funds are short. I’ll have to take the punt and hope the tyres that I have last the distance.
The ATV front tyres are rather worn down and also are a bit cracked and brittle [...]