Over the last few days Lake Eyre is filling up again. Great report from Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Kalamurina Sanctuary on the north edge of Lake Eyre, with pictures, click here.
Category Archives: desert
Outback NSW, Queensland and South Australia
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.
Flight over Arkaroola and Lake Frome
Took a flight over Lake Frome and Arkaroola. Map of flight below.
Vehicle performance across the Simson Desert
There was a variety of vehicles crossing the Simpson Desert with The Doc including a Toyota Landcruiser 100 series, Landcruiser 200 series (a brand-new diesel V8), Land Rover Defender, 2 Toyota Prados, Mitsubishi Challenger, Nissan Navarra, Toyota Hilux and The Doc’s Nissan Patrol.
Early on in the trip one of the Prado owners was telling someone how his Prado was better than The Doc’s Patrol. The Doc enjoyed recovering that Prado two days later when it got bogged. In fact, both recoveries were by Nissans on Toyota Prados. Prados may have the LandCruiser name, but they certainly not LandCruisers. The Doc is glad he never bought a Prado. They may handle better on road than a Patrol, but they’re certainly not better off road. They are a long way behind the LandCrusier, Defender and Patrol.
In the steeper dunes and rougher parts of the desert, the leafspring suspension of the Nission Navarra and the Toyota Hilux meant they were struggling.
The Doc thought the performance of the LandCruisers (not Prados), the Land Rover and the Patrol were very good. Although the LandCrusier 100 V8 Petrol used a lot of fuel. The 200 series V8 Diesel used just a little more than the Patrol – impressive. But they cost a great deal more money than a Patrol, so they should impress.
The Challenger was well driven and did a reasonable job, but it is a bit small for The Doc’s needs.
Textures of the Australian Bush: Sand and Salt of the Simpson Desert
The seventh instalment of Textures of the Australian Bush covers sand and salt of the Simpson Desert. Enjoy.
Point & Shoot
To understand how beautiful Lake Eyre, Anna Creek Station and the Painted Hills are, even a point-and-shoot camera takes marvellous photographs.
AWC in the Simpson
While crossing the Simpson Desert our convoy passed another heading east to west. They were a group of 3 motorcycles. The Doc was “Tail End Charlie” (the last in the convoy) and stopped to tell the leader he was the last car. The leader of the other group said he was an AWC supporter and gave The Doc the thumbs up after seeing the stickers on the side of The Doc’s car.
Next week the Doc is off to AWC’s Mornington Sanctuary in The Kimberly, should be great.
A bridled nail tail wallaby this time, once thought to be extinct in Australia, but now thriving on AWC’s Scotia Sanctuary.
Textures of the Australian Bush: Part 6 The Painted Hills
The small plane flight took us over Anna Creek Station, Lake Eyre and The Painted Hills. Perhaps the highlight of the flight. They have extraordinary colours and textures.
The following images were sharpened, resized and a bit of saturation was added. That is about it. Enjoy.
Textures of the Australian Bush: Part 5 Lake Eyre
The fifth instalment of Textures of the Australian Bush covers Lake Eyre. Enjoy.
Textures of the Australian Bush: Part 4 Anna Creek Station
The fourth instalment of Textures of the Australian Bush covers Anna Creek Station. Anna Creek Station is the largest Cattle Station (Ranch) in the world. Enjoy.
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