Long Off

Driving to the cricket

  • Homographical wind/wind

    Yours truly has experienced some wind this trip. Everyday has featured wind. It’s usually OK in the mornings but I wind up getting wind every afternoon and into the evening. It’s a wind up, this wind.

  • Megafauna

    Megafauna

    Western Australia is a huge. It’s a mega state with mega fauna. Porongurup Tourist Park is run by a green thumb. It’s like Allan Searle, Sandra Ross and Costa planted Burke’s Backyard. Check out these natives.

    Have you ever seen callistemons close up?

  • Eyre Highway SA-WA

    The road was like a lifeless pitch after lunch on the second day.

    Straight drive

    It offered no surprises: gun-barrel straight.

    Straight drive

    The longest straight stretch of road in Australia.

    Straight drive

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    Caiguna to Balladonia

    Straight drive

  • Nullarbor Roadhouse

    The photo op

    At the famous Nullarbor Roadhouse is this old fashioned bowser and petrol station. It’s not the actual petrol pump; it’s within a fenced off area for tourists to take a photo. It’s the equivalent of all Australians telling Americans that we all ride kangaroos.

    The actual roadhouse

  • Today I Checked The Mood In Whyalla

  • Little fluffy clouds

    What were the skies like when you were young?

    Little fluffy clouds over outback SA.

    They went on forever

    And the skies always had little fluffy clouds in them and, er
    They were long and clear and

    There were lots of stars at night
    And, er, when it would rain it would all turn, it, they were beautiful
    The most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact
    Uh, the sunsets were
    Purple and red and yellow and on fire
    And the clouds would catch the colors everywhere

    That’s unique, ’cause I used to look at them all the time when I was little…

  • Ephemeral

    Gone to bed – Oraparinna Creek

    With a bed of stone and sand, the ephemeral creeks of this area still support large trees and unique ecosystems. When they are not carrying water, the trees along the banks provide shade; an important commodity in its own right.

  • Golden Spike

    Golden Spike

    Driving north towards Outback South Australia and Ilkara-Flinders Ranges National Park. The park’s mountains have been looming over the horizon for the last 100km, slowly revealing their shape and structure. At first a dark hued haze on the horizon before the orange folds and laminations of the rock were close enough to catch my attention, like I knew they would.

    Within the park, the Ediacaran Golden Spike has been carefully placed here to mark a visible change in Earth geological epochs. The dramatic change in the colour of the strata from dark brown to a pale yellow is significant in ways an appreciate but am not expert.

  • Goyder Highway

    Driving Goyder Highway on the wrong side of the Surveyor General’s line…

    Near Maude, SA.

    …but on the other side of the line, you don’t always breathe diesel and dust.

    Ken Duncan woz ere
    Burra, SA

  • Sunraysia Haboob

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    Ochre cloud

    Overhead

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    DURING DUST STORMS

    TURN ON LIGHTS

    REDUCE SPEED

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    Dusty drizzle

    Decelerate

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    Signs, like the one in this photo lifted from the internet, are common around Mildura.