One of the most prolific travelers on the planet is the Wanderer or Monarch Butterfly, (Danaus plexippus), and so I was not surprised to find this beautiful creature as we walked around the base of Uluru. Here a wanderer rests on the damp earth from the recent rain drinking from the minute amounts of water […]
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Coober Pedy in outback South Australia is a very strange place and that strangeness begins in the desert landscape well before you arrive. Like some alien landscape the white and brown cones of unearthed soil, the dumped mullock heaps of opal mining, dot the landscape. Each little mound tells of an abandoned search into the […]
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Arguably sunset on Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock) is Australia’s most famous, most iconic and most photographed event. When I finally got to experience this for myself, watching the colours changing as the sun fell in the west, I felt intimidated by every image I had ever seen and if I could capture even a glimpse […]
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There is an imaginary line running through the north of South Australia called Goyder’s Line which it was determined that farming above the line would be unviable to early settlers. Following a long period of yearly above average rainfall many farmers decided to shun the warning and establish cropping farmland well to the north of […]
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It’s getting too hot now in the Flinders Ranges for most daytime activities so I probably will not be heading up there again for a while now. This sunrise over Rawnsley Station is from a trip a few months ago when it was a little cooler. As I sat up here watching the sunrise a […]
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