Wilderness Travel - Photography, Camping, Outback Adventure

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

Walking up the dry creek bed in Aragunnu Creek, the going got a bit tough so I climbed up the rugged bank and headed along through the coastal bush.

My youngest son, Josh, was a pretty good little photographer as a lad.
We’d go photographing together and then develop and print the results in the darkroom.

Well, the rebuild of the ATV trailer is coming along nicely. Here’s the trailer with a practice load.

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.

Well, my dad died the other day after 87 years of life.
Hard Start To Life
Dad had a pretty hard start to life.
His mother was walking to the hospital in the heavy industry section of Melbourne but couldn’t wait any longer so squatted in the culvert and gave birth to Dad. A kind lady happened along [...]

Well, this is a little greeting video from Granddad to my twin grandsons.
Hello Zak and Brock!

Zak and Brock live on the other side of the country, 4000 kilometres away, so we don’t get to meet up all that often.
They have learned the Granddad secret sign, used here to make contact with the sweet little fellas.
Maybe [...]

Lesley and I stayed at Yackandandah in north east Victoria for just the one night.
It was at Yackandandah that we got the news of my dad’s passing so packed up and headed home in a hurry to prepare for the flight to Perth.

Two nights spent at River Bend Caravan Park, near Echuca and Moama in north east Victoria, practically on the border with New South Wales. Our camp is on the Goulburn River and the Murray River is only a kilometre or two away, over the flood plain forest of redgum and what I guess is grey [...]

Well, we didn’t expect to be twenty kilometres out of town, half of the distance being over a dirt road, the Echuca Nathalia Road.
It’s Melbourne Cup weekend. That is, it’s a long weekend for those Victorians who could swing Monday off. Many families from Melbourne have lined the Murray River for four days of sunshine, [...]