Category Archives: Warrumbungles NP

Goulburn River, Warrumbungles and the Pilliga

Australia, AWC, bark, forest, Landscape, landscape, mountains, NSW, Piligia, Plant, Textures, trees, Warrumbungles NP

The Doc’s last trip visited Central NSW and Outback Queensland to visit an AWC Sanctuary and visit collections of dinosaur fossils.

Part 1 concerns NSW, the Report is here.

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Outback NSW, Queensland and South Australia

desert, Flinders Ranges, Landscape, landscape, mountains, Mutawintji NP, NSW, plains, Qld, SA, sand dunes, Warrumbungles NP

On the last trip The Doc and his friend Tony travelled around outback NSW, Queensland and South Australia. Places like the Warrumbungles, Broken Hill, Marree, the ochre pits at Lyndhurst, ruins at Farina, Arkaroola Wildness Sanctuary, Innamincka, Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges, Epsilon in outback Queensland, Cameron’s Corner, Tibooburra, Menindee Lakes and lots of others.

Characters like Talc Alf, roadtrains and huge coal carrying locomotives, the odd emu and even some water in this parched part of Australia.

A collection of photos from that trip.

The Doc’s Road Trip

Australia, AWC, Lake Eyre, NSW, SA, Scotia Sanctuary, Simpson Desert, Warrumbungles NP

Here is a map of the last road trip, just under 8,000km (excluding the flight which was 390km). The plane flight over Lake Eyre and Anna Creek Station are the “wings” you can see in South Australia.

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Odometer milestones were:

  • 25,000km at Warrumbungles, NSW
  • 26,000km between Cobar and Wilcannia, NSW
  • 27,000km AWC’s Scotia Sanctuary, NSW
  • 29,000km Simpson Desert, SA
  • 30,000km Innamincka, SA
  • 31,000km near Cobar, NSW

Next week The Doc flies to AWC’s Mornington Sanctuary in the Kimberlies, Western Australia.

Warrumbungles recon finished

Australia, Landscape, mountains, NSW, Panoramio, Uncategorised, Warrumbungles NP

In January 2013 the Wambelong Fire destroyed much of the Warrumbungles National Park. The Doc visited to do some recon for a trip later. Nearly half the walking trails are still closed and many facilities still need major repair work. But the birds and animals are returning in numbers.

You need to hike for at least half a day to most places, so the closed tracks make it hard.

The Doc arranged a sunrise shot of the mountains, but the weather had other ideas with it raining. So The Doc headed off to Dubbo to visit the Western Plains Zoo in the next day or so. It was raining over much of the area.

A panorama shot from yesterday, from the lookout right next to Siding Springs Telescope.

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