Tag: Outback

Willaroo Lagoon, not far from my camp at Andamooka Waterhole in outback South Australia, is a dry, salt lake, around three kilometres long and a couple of kilometres wide.
On the far side, I guess that would be north west, are slate cliffs, would be eight metres high. In times past, the slate has been open [...]

Well, today I went wandering on the nearby sand dune and found evidence of a once florishing Aboriginal community. I’d only just climbed the low dune when I came upon a midden with small bone fragments. Scattered about the midden were stone flakes with the typical characteristics of Aboriginal stone flakes, the result of making [...]

Well, you need to understand that going to the toilet when camping rough in outback Australia is pretty hard for a bloke who likes to sit and contemplate life in general and the world at large.
There’s not a tree in sight to the horizon but privacy isn’t an issue with nobody around to hide from [...]

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 [...]

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.

The Walls of China is one of the main draw cards at Lake Mungo in Willandra Lakes National Park in western NSW (New South Wales), Australia.

With flood waters flowing down the Darling River from Queensland, Lake Pamamaroo is filling and the water is flowing on through Copi Hollow to Lake Menindee and Lake Cawndilla.
Black box trees of Lake Pamamaroo, killed by the water levels of the enhanced capacity of these natural lakes, make for a stark landscape image in the [...]

Lake Menindee is part of the Menindee Lakes system in western New South Wales, (NSW). The lake is accessed fairly easily from the dirt roads that follow large distances of the lake’s perimeter.
Driving a few kilometres out along the road toward Kinchega National Park, we pulled up on top of the sand dune that borders [...]