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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

Yes you are right there re the eighties...
The family saw a Leyland Brothers show when they broke the secret back in the day. I arrived home after being away for 6 months or so and most everything...

Yes Cuppa, it's a great spot, being a full on park its a bit restrictive but probably needed in this case.
It was good for me, second trip away with some of the grand kids, they can enhance things...

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...

Poeppel Corner.
Augustus Poeppel (1839–1891) was a surveyor and explorer in Australia. He surveyed the borders between Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Augustus Poeppel was...

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