Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV

I spent a couple of hours photographing the shearing at South Gap Station in outback South Australia. All colour digital, I’m afraid, with a subject lending itself to black and white images.
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Black and white image produced from a digital colour photo. Shearing at the South Gap woolshed.
My days of genuine […]

Shearing at the South Gap Woolshed had been in full swing for several days when I arrived to photograph the shearers and stockmen engaged in the annual event.

Ray spraying the sheep for lice while pastoralist, Bob Greenfield, manages then in the race.

With a total workforce of 17 people, it was by no means a small […]

My fear of snakes goes right back to early childhood.

This sleepy became my security from snakes for the two days that I camped at the old stockmen’s hut.

We had a black dog named Doggin, or was it Doggen or maybe Doggan.
Anyway, Doggin caught a snake. Mum killed the snake but not in time to save […]

I camped one night in the tent, near the sheep yards and crutching shed at Beda.

A couple of sheets of iron over the bike kept it fairly dry.

The morning dawned overcast, so apart from a few photographs as the sun rose over the horizon, and below the cloud cover, it wasn’t much good for my […]

Well, I was on South Gap Station in the arid region of South Australia. The turn-off from the Stuart Highway is about midway between Port Augusta and Pimba. Then it’s 60km of reasonable dirt, station roads.

My camp at Gum Creek, near Lake Torrens on South Gap Station, darkness having overtaken me.

Leaving my ute at the […]

Well, I’m home from my trip to outback South Australia.

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My place in Bega New South Wales

My sleeping bag was filthy and smelly from many nights sleeping pretty rough. It was rather dirty from the red dust of the outback. Dirty inside and dusty outside. It was also rather smelly from the many warm […]

I camped on Pernatty Station in the Northern Pastoral District of South Australia in the Australian Outback.

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Salt waterholes and the delta where Elizabeth Creek flows into Pernatty Lagoon in outback South Australia.

Camping in the shade of a densely foliated myall tree would have been nice, but the prickly bushes everywhere took the edge […]

On a previous trip to Red Lake, the wind, the dust and the flies made it unbearable. But the few quick photos that I’d taken were worthwhile and a look about had revealed a stark and captivating landscape with the dead, native pines, red sandhills, the barron, red lake bed and the brilliant blue sky […]

About 20km travel south and then west from Pernatty Homestead saw me at Red Lake, a trip on the ATV (quadbike) that took around two hours.

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Red Lake, a great place to camp and a stark landscape to photograph.

The trailer carried my tent and other camping gear, fuel, water, food and cooking utensils for […]

I camped for one night in a small hut on Andamooka Station. Maybe it was the cook’s quarters, in days gone by. Here’s the story and photos:

Late afternoon at the hut I camped in, on Andamooka Station

Several of the arid region stations have been taken over by BHP Billiton, the big mining company that runs […]