Heading North

Outback Australia

Folder: Australia
6-800kilometers inland from Adelaide, in the remote North of South Australia. This is the red desert heart of my country,where distances are vast and inhabitants are few. The colours and landscapes are breath-taking. Rainfall is almost nil...Australia is the driest continent in the world. There are huge salt lakes, which occasionally fill, and the odd billabong(waterhole), like an oasis, where cre…  (read more)
Heading North

Heading North

19 Sep 2011 6 8 906
Stuart Highway to Central Australia. The third image, after the cow and sheep could be ( A) a person in a seatbelt (B) a small child or (C) an alien. It is, after all, very remote and isolated!
Disused opal miner's cottage. Andamooka

Disused opal miner's cottage. Andamooka

20 Sep 2011 10 8 1003
Far Northern South Australia desert. Here the temperatures reach into the 50's in summer. The miners dug out one room stone houses from the earth and rock. This little town is hundreds of kilometers from any other town or city. It is still an opal mining town. ON BLACK PLEASE
Farm fence and dry earth

Farm fence and dry earth

20 Sep 2011 2 3 714
Far Northern South Australia desert. On BLACK please
On the Oodnadatta Track (main road)

On the Oodnadatta Track (main road)

20 Sep 2011 7 5 886
Far Northern South Australia desert. This track runs for hundreds of kilometers inland.
Farm fence Muloorina.

Farm fence Muloorina.

20 Sep 2011 5 2 664
Far Northern South Australia desert. Beef cattle country.
Salt and water. Muloorina .

Salt and water. Muloorina .

21 Sep 2011 13 9 980
Far Northern South Australia desert. Rare waterhole.
Drying the laundry

Drying the laundry

21 Sep 2011 10 6 775
Darter (Anhinga melanogaster). Muloorina waterhole in the centre of hundreds of square kilometers of arid desert. Northern South Australia.
Juvenile Goanna- 60cm

Juvenile Goanna- 60cm

21 Sep 2011 10 3 800
Central Australia.
Successful catch! (Au milieu naturel)

Successful catch! (Au milieu naturel)

21 Sep 2011 7 2 759
A wild Great Egret. Muloorina waterhole in the centre of hundreds of square kilometers of arid desert. Northern South Australia.
Brolgas (milieu naturel)

Brolgas (milieu naturel)

22 Sep 2011 13 7 972
Desert Australia. These birds (Grus rubicundus) are around 140cm tall. Here they are at a waterhole in the remote central desert region of South Australia.
Desert waterhole - Muloorina

Desert waterhole - Muloorina

21 Sep 2011 6 5 912
Australia central desert. Home to thousands of waterbirds from the surrounding arid vastness.
Last resting place

Last resting place

20 Sep 2011 9 4 720
Remote Andamooka...opal mining town in far north South Australia's red desert heart
Classic Australian outback dunny (toilet)

Classic Australian outback dunny (toilet)

20 Sep 2011 2 6 1649
Remote Andamooka. Desert Australia. Still in use.
Ground control to Major Tom....

Ground control to Major Tom....

19 Sep 2011 3 2 736
In the remote South Australian desert is the town of Woomera, where from the 1950's onwards joint secret testing of rockets, missiles and weapons was conducted with UK among others. Still a closed Defence area, a small park has remnants of war games and boys' toys.
Games without frontiers....

Games without frontiers....

19 Sep 2011 528
In the remote South Australian desert is the town of Woomera, where from the 1950's onwards joint secret testing of rockets, missiles and weapons was conducted with UK among others. Still a closed Defence area, a small park has remnants of war games and boys' toys. ON BLACK
Marchons, marchons...... (milieu naturel)

Marchons, marchons...... (milieu naturel)

22 Sep 2011 15 13 917
3 brolgas. Central Australia.
First a bus, then a house..now......

First a bus, then a house..now......

20 Sep 2011 4 9 632
Andamooka. Isolated desert opal mining town Remote central Australia
Aboriginal ochre wall

Aboriginal ochre wall

23 Sep 2011 7 4 699
Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Indigenous Australians used the different colour ochres from this wall to paint their bodies and weapons. ON BLACK PLEASE
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