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A few rocks in the 'Blue Room.'
Flinders Ranges SA
May 2023
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She's still up, for how much longer?
Kingoonya SA
April 202386758

A meander from Ceduna, Googs, Tarcoola, Kingoonya, Glendambo, SA a good excuse to burn some diesel😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV0616Dnsp8&t=1s

Location
Hawker is an ideal base to see the Central Flinders Ranges. Hawker, is known as the hub of the Flinders Ranges, is an easy 4 – 5 hour drive north of Adelaide. Hawker is approximately 110...

Station Ruins, May 2020, Southern Flinders Ranges.*

A glimpse of what was thought to be cropping country from c 1870-1920.

..but the rains stopped. It still produces sheep.

With an...

A trek that went via..
Hawker SA, Marree, Oodnadatta, Dalhousie, French Line, QAA, Birdsville, Walker Crossing, Coongie Lakes, Dig Tree, Innamincka, Balcanoona, Waukeringa, Yunta.
Weather was mild...

Just got it done before the Chinese Pox killed fun...

Anne Beadell Highway traverses South and Western Australia and is approx. 1400kms long
Surveyed and the track pushed through by Len Beadell...

While out and about chanced upon a bore being sunk..
40m 2560ppm TDS sweet water...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dktgRhSodcI

A little meander around the western Flinders Ranges..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOe2bIwI__8

Coongie Lakes.
Much publicised by the Leyland brothers back in the day.(who can't remember their jingle hehe)
Formerly part of the Kidman Cattle Empire, thence a regional reserve and since 31 March...

A French Petroleum Company first drilled Purni Bore in the Simpson Desert as a strategic well in about 1964.
When oil exploration activities ceased in the early 1980's the bore was left to flow...

The bakery is open in May/June primarily to supply fresh goodies for the crew who bob up for the annual restoring work..

Located about 600 kilometres north of Adelaide, the tiny dusty town used to be a bustling railway hub.
Railway made its way to Farina in 1882 and from then on, stock was transhipped to the southern...

In December 1963, 5 members of the Page family perished after their vehicle had broken down in difficult mid summer conditions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gunVvLvp5PE

Found along the Old Ghan Rail line, these Kennicott water softeners present as a tower type of tank often still piped to a head tank previously used for filling loco water tanks.
Treating loco...