From The Doc’s New South Wales trip in 2014.
Mutawintji Revisited
Category Archives: Mutawintji NP
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.
Mutawintji Revisited
The Doc returned to Mutawinjti National Park after the Scotia visit. Mutawintji is pronounced Mut-a-win-gee. An aboriginal word meaning green and waterholes. The early settlers misheard the aborigines and called it Mootwingee.
It was and is a major meeting area for Aborigines, it has extensive engravings and rock art, one of the most extensive in Australia. A sample is given below of hand stencils around 2,000 years old. The rock engravings predate the art work and is over 8,000 years old, perhaps even 15,000 years.
A visit to Mutawintji is incomplete unless you visit the Mutawintji Historic Site, where you must be accompanied by a guide. We had Michel from Tri State Safaris who did an excellent job. An extensive report of the Park may come later, after the Simpson Desert trip.
The Doc is now back in Broken Hill getting everything ready for the Simpson Desert trip starting Monday morning.
Mutawintji recon finished
Wet weather in Dubbo meant The Doc headed to Broken Hill via Gundabooka and Paroo-Darling National Parks. Hopefully he can do the Zoo on the return journey.
The Doc spent yesterday morning looking around the sculptures in the desert and few other places at Broken Hill, the silver city. After lunch, The Doc drove out to Mutawintji National Park and stayed the night. The Doc did some recon to see how much time was needed to properly explore the Park, perhaps a week to 10 days. He did some exploration and then drove back into Broken Hill.
Now downloading, sorting, indexing and backing up photos. Also writing a blog update.
Off to AWC’s Scotia Sanctuary and a 3 day event in the morning.
This photo was taken in Mutawintji NP, can anyone guess what is it?
Sunset near the Little Topar Roadhouse on the Barrier Highway on the way into Broken Hill.
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