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Atop the only rise for 500 miles I prepared to get a few Outback sunset shots. Then, as though from nowhere, a car appeared, out sprang the occupants who rushed into my foreground to get their point and shoot shots. Every adversity is an opportunity, this photo bombing was mine.
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A spectacular sunset on the western plains of New South Wales and the only three for miles to break the hosizon.
Sunset on the endless flat plains of outback South Australia. This shot taken at Coober Pedy, a town 846 Km north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the "opal capital of the world" because of the quantity of precious opals that are mined there. Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called "dugouts", where most of the population live due to the scorching daytime temperatures.
Today we turned inland on a two day drive to the north coast of Iceland. There would be no paved road these two days. and the road would deteriorate significantly, the further we drove into the interior.
This shot was taken near the start of our journey; a potholed and narrow track into the wilderness. In the next two days we would cross a good few rivers, none of them by bridge. The rivers are fast flowing and relatively shallow, with no markers to help gauge the depth of the water.
Here is an extract from today's Journal:-
Today we headed inland on gravel roads that were generally good, but there were places where the pot holes were big and deep and the going quite rough. For the first time Iceland looks a bit like Australia with roads like you’d see in the Outback, and there’s a distinct lack of bridges.
Unlike the Outback, there are lava fields all around, snow capped volcanoes and the rivers are filled with fast flowing water. Our bus lost its front number plate driving through one of the flooded rivers. Iceland has clip on number plates. I would have thought screw on would be a better option.
The beautiful colours of the Australian outback. This shot was taken near Cooper's Creek/Windorah Qld on a recent trip to Birdsville Qld.
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Thomson River crossing and dock at Longreach, a Queensland outback town 26 hours by train from Brisbane.
Sometimes in life you have to take the road less traveled. An outback highway, far western New South Wales, Australia.
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"Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze
At midnight in the cold and frosty sky…" (Banjo Patterson)
The dark sky in The Great Red Centre of Australia.
The reptile.
It is only the hardest of the hardy that can survive in the Australian outback.
This is one of those outback survivors.
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My travelling companion, a visitor from Chile, took this shot through the windscreen when we came up behind a truck somewhere in outback South Australia. Of course, he had his eye on the map of Australia on the back of the trailer, and the Kangaroo warning sign
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