Mexican artist Antonio Nava Tirado’s sculpture, ‘Bajo El Sol Jaguar’ is just one of the beautiful works created in the Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium. Here in the Living Desert Sanctuary, twelve sandstone sculptures share the sunrise with the birds, the animals of the bush and the sounds of nature while the sunset is shared with […]
Read More
When you turn onto the Arkaroola road out of Yunta you are greeted with several warnings about heading north-west. Aside from reminding you about the dangers of heading into remote locations it proclaims the road being suitable for four wheel drives and heavy vehicles only. Metal roads (from the latin ‘metallum’) with many creek crossings, […]
Read More
I really could not call this image anything else. For years I’d driven up and down and around this north-south spit of land north of Port Adelaide and not realised how thin a strip of land the Lefevre Peninsula really is. You’d think looking at Google maps or some other schematic description of the lay […]
Read More
Tucked in behind the Torrens Island Power Station with its two huge chimneys is a tiny new power station called the Barker Inlet Power Station. At a glance you’d think it was part of the larger power station infrastructure but note the two brightly yellow lit stacks over to the right with their 6 stainless […]
Read More
It’s while after sunset now. The iPhones with their attention spans long since turned from sunset to social no longer observe the western sky. Through twilight, the sky transitions through layers of orange and yellow and green before a deep blue heralds the first evening stars. This is a special time when seabirds skim the […]
Read More