Category Archives: Landscape

The road to Birdsville

After Longreach I headed for Winton, and then westward to Boulia across the “Channel Country” and then south to Birdsville. Once you start heading west you know you are really “outback”, the country soon changes to endless flat plains broken … Continue reading

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Star trails

Boulia shire, way, way out in western Queensland has a tourist motto : “wide open horizons, magical night skies” For once, it’s not an exaggeration. As Banjo Paterson wrote in “Clancy of The Overflow”: And he sees the vision splendid … Continue reading

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Into the rainforest

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Life’s a beach

As Lara Bingle would have said, “where the bloody hell are you?” Beautiful sandy beaches, all deserted for most of the day. (for anybody who does n’t know what the first line is about, Lara Bingle used the phrase in … Continue reading

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From the outback to the beach

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From this : to this : Leaving the Northern Territory I headed west from Threeways near Tennant Creek along highway 66 … not quite the same as America’s fabled Route 66 to California, but heading to the beach all the … Continue reading

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Rainbow valley

I don’t know why it’s called “rainbow valley”, it’s only shades of red, but still quite pretty at sunset : And in the morning : $3.30 to wake up with a view like that from my swag …..priceless.

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