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I’ve been tagged! Tagged by RedNomaOz of Amazing Australian Adventures to take part in a 7 Super Shots travel blogging game. If you had to sum up your most amazing travel experiences in just seven photos, could you do it? Well… No! Travel is about experiences and one photo rarely tells the whole story, so in a […]
Have you driven Australia’s remote outback roads? Long and seemingly endless, they’re bordered by an expanse of bush vegetation that imperceptibly changes until there’s a sudden realisation you’re driving through a different vegetation zone. (More endless outback road images can be had in my Barkly Tablelands post 😉 ) Some might call the landscape monotonous, but sitting back at the […]
Charters Towers in 1890 was Queensland’s second largest town (population 30,000) and referred to by locals as ‘the World‘, due to its cosmopolitan nature and the fact that anything one might desire was there, so why travel anywhere else! In 1907 Charters Towers was proclaimed a city. Today, about 8,000 people call Charters Towers home (Charters […]
The Barkly Tableland covers 21% of the Northern Territory in a swathe from Mount Isa just east of the Queensland/NT border, west to Daly Waters. After a night camping at the Devils Marbles under a waning full moon (having spent the evening light exploring the rock formations scattered across these beautiful 1,800 hectares of Australian outback) […]
The Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) are located on the Stuart Highway, 400km north of Alice Springs and 100 km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. The first known reference to the name ‘Devils Marbles’ was by John Lewis in 1872 during the construction of the overland Telegraph line – His account reads: “We […]
Photo of the week ~ My recent trip to Australia’s red centre was awesome! Here’s the route we took plotted on my Central Australia pictorial map journal with tales jotted in the bordered boxes around the outside… simply summarizing our trip on a single sheet and… …highlighting our holiday adventures 🙂 Do you jot down a few […]
Palya! Welcome to Anangu land When we entered Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park in the Red Centre of Australia, we were given this awesome guide book of Welcome – Palya – as part of the Park entrance fee ($25 per person). (I believe you now need to collect this from the Cultural Centre – and […]
After heading west out of Alice Springs along the MacDonnell Ranges for 132 km, the fourth highest mountain in the Northern Territory came into view to our north… … Mount Sonder, which stands 1,380 meters above sea level (4,528 feet) Mount Sonder is the end ‘marker’ of the famed Larapinta walking trail that traverses across country 223 kilometres […]
Continuing along the West MacDonnell ranges, after our stops at Standley Chasm and the Ochre Pits we travelled the last 25 km to Ormiston Gorge, which after leaving Namatjira Drive crossed several dry creek beds adorned with stately eucalypts. It had been a long hot day and the sight of the water in Ormiston Gorge was welcoming 🙂 It took no […]
Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps) I so nearly trod on this poor little chap! We’d stopped for breakfast on the way to Standley Chasm. I was walking through the leaf litter to get a photo of our motorhome (camperbus!) when as I moved forward there was a rustling movement underfoot! Yikes! What was I about to […]
