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 […]

Well, I’m home from my trip to outback South Australia.

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My place in Bega New South Wales

My sleeping bag was filthy and smelly from many nights sleeping pretty rough. It was rather dirty from the red dust of the outback. Dirty inside and dusty outside. It was also rather smelly from the many warm […]

I camped on Pernatty Station in the Northern Pastoral District of South Australia in the Australian Outback.

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Salt waterholes and the delta where Elizabeth Creek flows into Pernatty Lagoon in outback South Australia.

Camping in the shade of a densely foliated myall tree would have been nice, but the prickly bushes everywhere took the edge […]

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 […]

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 […]

It was about 1.00am and between Renmark and Morgan that I pulled into a truck parking bay for the remainder of the night.

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I camped east of Overland Corner, between Renmark and Morgan.

Plenty of space, with only one semi trailer there, I parked the ute near the edge of the graveled area, spreading out […]