I offer no apologies for an obviously tourist snapshot! The boldness of this outback town’s welcome sign is nothing short of ostentatious and I simply had to capture it (along with every other visitor to Silverton)! This humble little town in the middle of the Australian outback is the birthplace of our largest and most […]
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Mining is tough. Mining in arid outback Australia even tougher. Imagine your self back in the late 1800s, armed with a pick, a shovel and a wheel barrow and working a 12 hour hard labour day. If you’re still determined to endure such hardship then throw in breathing silicate dust all day and having your […]
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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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