The Simpson desert after rain – amazing!! We have just returned from the GREEN CENTRE. It was a privilege and such a humbling experience to journey through this beautiful landscape after so much nourishing rain.
Wherever we camp we are conscious of our impact and remove all our waste with us. We carry and not burn our rubbish; we have our own toilet so our waste is not left; and I am a strong advocate to women to take with them in a zip lock bag their used toilet paper from roadside wees, instead of leaving it disrespectfully to litter the environment.
COME TRAVEL WITH ME BY LOOKING THROUGH MY GALLERIES! – by clicking on the numbered links below.
Rather than the ‘Best Of’ tour that we have become accustomed in our fast paced ‘grab quick’ lives, I have offered extensive galleries for those who wish to really get an idea of the 10,000 km which we travelled. This is the closest many will get to travelling in this beautiful landscape, which is why I have included so many photos and an extensive gallery. I think of these galleries as like a good book – you can either dive into them and just keep going, or you can come back to them when you make the time….then when you are finished you have an enriched experience which has moved or touched something in your psyche. I hope these galleries which I share do that.
All the galleries and photos are in chronological order – as I saw and snapped, mostly whilst driving!
Horizons may not be horizontal….. some may not be in focus…….. compositions may not be quite right …….. but for these photographs none of these things matter for me. Although some of these photographs are quite beautiful, my purpose is to have a visual diary to record and share this truly special and spectacular part of this country – when it has not before been seen like this in living memory.
I hope you enjoy coming on this wonderful journey with me. Click on the headings to view the galleries.
2. Birdsville to Alice Springs
5. Mt Dare into the Simpson desert – it is usually just rocks and sand
6. the desert garden was breathtaking
7. the flowers bloom and the clouds build
8. the road narrows and the claypans begin
9. the dunes get higher and the claypans wider
10. closer to birdsville there is more sand and more water
11. last bit across the desert toward birdsville
12. Birdsville,Boulia toward Mt Isa
13. toward Mt Isa – storms and pelting rain
14. Around Alice Springs – heat, flowers and storms building
15. alice sptings to rainbow valley – wet roads, flowers and amazing rocks
16. rainbow valley to north of kulgera – storms and rain keep coming
17. north of kulgera to near apatula – finke; clouds, puddles and blooms
18. north of apatula – finke to north of mt dare; blie skies at last
20. Mt Dare to Hamilton into the Perdika desert
21. Hamilton to Oodnadatta – green covered gibber plains
22. Oodnadatta into the painted desert – magnificent sandstone formations
23. Painted Desert toward Coober Pedy – expansiveness of the gibber plains
24. nearly at coober pedy – fields of shiny gypsum on rolling gibber plains
25. coober pedy to william creek – the expanse never seems to end
26. william creek to Wabma Kadarbu Conservation Park – abundance of life and saltpans again
27. Wabma Kadarbu Conservation Park – natural springs
28. Wabma Kadarbu to Arkaroola – plains rise to ranges
29. Arkaroola to Mt Hopeless – still water around
30. merty merty to cameron corner – running the gauntlet with the rain
