Category: Wilderness

Camping gear boxes mounted on the ATV trailer for a trial run.
Wilderness photography trip to outback South Australia is getting closer and the preparations are coming together.
The boxes are finished and mounted on the ATV trailer for a practice. The next step will be to load up the camping gear boxes for a practice at [...]

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 [...]

Spring time wilderness trip comming up
All being well, the first day of spring, September 1, should see the start of another wilderness landcsape photography trip to the arid region of outback South Australia.

ATV trailer with boxes mounted for a try out.
Two new boxes are nearly finished. Just need some handles and a rope stopper so [...]

Moonscape wilderness landscape – Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains
Well, you’d expect landscape images of Lake Eucumbene on the Monaro, at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, to feature blue water images, lush plants and flowers, chocolate box photos of an idillic recreation spot.

Near Frying Pan, looking across a narrow arm of Lake Eucumbene, [...]

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 [...]

A dragon raises it’s ugly head.
Faces found in a snowgum, overlooking Lake Eucumbene
For those with an imaginative eye, faces and forms are seen in the random textures and shapes found in the natural world.
A cat perched on a snowgum.
In this case the source of the images is a snowgum, overlooking Lake Eucumbene, near Frying Pan [...]

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 [...]

Clay pan between parallel sand dunes in the arid region.
The photo shows just how dry and inhospitable the outback, wilderness, arid region of South Australia can be. This is six inch rainfall country.
My son, with his little family, lives in a mining town, Roxby Downs, an oasis in the desert. They are a family of [...]