Wilderness Travel - Photography, Camping, Outback Adventure

I camped the night at Baroota Rodeo Grounds between Port Pirrie and Port Augusta on the Stuart Highway in South Australia.
Quite mild overnight and dry, now that I’ve entered the arid region.
For ten bucks you don’t expect too much. I’ve camped rougher but it’s always cost me nothing. I slept in an open fronted shed [...]

Well, ya wanna believe I’m doing it pretty tough here, between Nerrandra and Hay, about half a km off the Sturt Highway in NSW.
I stopped about three hours short of my goal for the day, a bit tired. Got my camp set up and a fire going in daylight.
But typing up a blog in the [...]

When my dad died, a little over a year ago, I came by some paperwork that allowed me to follow up on some of my heritage. So, accompanied by my grandson, Nicky, I found the grave of my Grandfather, Colin McArthur, a returned WW1 veteran.
Colin McArthur was the grandfather whom I never knew, never met. [...]

Well, for years our family has been spread around Australia from the east to the west coast, four and a half thousand kilometres separating our most distant family members. But this Christmas we’re all together and the twins stayed the night of Christmas eve with us making for a great Christmas morning.
So here are a [...]

I’ve camped in Yeltacowie Homestead a couple of times. My first visit to Yeltacowie coincided with a visit by two great old timers, Ernie Ash and John Barber.
Watching the Fire in the Metters Stove

You see, Yeltacowie homestead has been abandoned for several years and these two mates were making the trip for old time’s sake, [...]

Heading east across the Nullarbor Plain and then north through Central Australia? Or maybe in the reverse direction?
Google Map of the Short Cut from Ceduna to Glendambo via Kingoonya
View Directions to Glendambo, South Australia in a larger map
Well, you can cut off a lot of kilometres and see some great outback country at the same [...]

An ancient volcanic plug, it’s covering of softer rock eroded away, stands watch over the rocky bay at Aragunnu in Mimosa Rocks National Park, NSW, New South Wales, Australia.
View Aragunnu Beach in a larger map

Lesley and I visited Menindee Lakes in outback NSW, Australia, on our recent photography trip. Here is an album of images, mostly dead trees with a few wildflowers thrown in.
Claire has made some comments, below, and has kindly sent this great macro shot of a bee foraging on the Patterson’s Curse, near her home.
Hope you [...]

On our recent trip the western part of New South Wales, Australia, we encountered these wildflowers way out near White Cliffs. It’s outback Australia, alright, though not so far off the beaten track to be thought of as being dangerously isolated.

Well, it’s ages since I last did a portrait session but since a few photographer friends were getting together for a barbie, show and tell and model shoot, I went along with it.
After photographing in the studio for a while, we went outside where it was rather overcast, most of the time, cold and windy.
A [...]