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This is day 2, trip along the Border Track - Dog Fence.
This must be one of the best sand tracks to be found in Victoria/South Australia. It follows the border from near Pinnaroo right down to near the Melbourne - Adelaide hwy.
This track has very large sand hills to get over. Most of these hills have tracks to get around them if you are not able to get over them. Some of these hills are so extreme there's no way anyone will get over them, so this track can very easily be classed as a 'Difficult' track.
Very Important. Check with the SA National Parks and Reserves for information on when the track is closed, and what direction you need to go in.
The track is about 107km. Allow a full day to make this trip. For a more enjoyable weekend, take your time and camp anywhere along the track. Stop in or camp at Red Bluff - scenic red sandstone hill.
(This is where we stopped). Dress warm though as it gets hot in the day, freezing at night.
Make sure you pack all your recovery gear, and travel in a group with other 4wd's. (We had to recover 2 vehicles).
Check the depths of the mud holes. Some for us were over 1 meter deep. Watch out for the holes towards the end, they are really deep!
Momentum is your friend on the sand dunes. We used 15psi tyre pressures. (Try the sand dunes 3x, if you fail, take the chicken path)
We ended up getting lost around the supposed turnoff to red bluff, that according to the maps was "well signposted".
We ended up with broken eggs and bottles.
This is mostly a sandy track with dunes and provides you with a remote location for testing self and equipment without travelling deeper into the outback.
The environment is typical Victorian desert – Mallee country. Expect some scratching from Mallee scrub particularly in the Wyperfeld section and some parts of the Northern Border Track may be overgrown. Soft sand is to be found on the tracks as well as corrugations and hard gravel.
The border track is steeped in history largely due to the dispute which arose from the original survey completed between 1847 and 1850. The result is that the border is actually sighted some 3kms too far West. A fascinating account of this can be obtained from John Deckert at Westprint Heritage Maps if you manage to visit whilst in Nhill.
There is an abundance of wildlife to enjoy whilst undertaking this trip, so watch out for Emu and Kangaroo. Aboriginal rock holes can be found close to the junction with South Bore Track.
We were lucky to reach the top speed of 40 kms/hr.
This photo was taken with a Canon EOS 5D, 70-200 IS L USM 2.8 lens, HDR, AEB
2011
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This is the old EJ&E line near Wayne, IL. I believe it was taken sometime in the early 2000's, when the J still owned it and seldom ran trains through here. I know, don't walk down railroad tracks - what can I say, I was young and dumb once too!
Fresh scan of the original negative.
Another shot from todays visit to Dungeness, 3 images merged with HDR Efex Pro & then converted to B&W
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Now out of commission, the tracking station is located at the end of a beautiful trail whose genesis is at the popular Bamboo Cathedral.
It is understood these track vehicles were purchased by Glenreagh Mountain Railway. They were temporarily stored in Sydney during May 2005 before being transported to Glenreagh.
about the second hdr I've ever done, this of some train tracks
on black is about 100x better check it...
and for zebrapaperclip (check out her photostream) just watch it and replace the one word with canada
Animal tracks climbing the dune. Maybe a Kangaroo Rat?
Sand Dunes in Douglas Provincial Park, Saskatchewan.
Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (pronounced [ˈmɛrks]) (born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, considered to be the greatest pro-cyclist ever.
The French magazine Vélo described Merckx as "the most accomplished rider that cycling has ever known,"[2] while VeloNews of the United States declared him to be the greatest and most successful cyclist of all time.
Merckx, who turned professional in 1965, won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia five times each, and the Vuelta a España once. He also won all of professional cycling's classic "monument" races at least twice each (with 19 Classics victories in all). Merckx was World Champion once as an amateur and three times as a professional, and he broke the world hour record before retiring in 1978.
Since then, Merckx has remained active in professional cycling through various commercial and sporting projects, most notably by manufacturing and selling his own line of bicycles, Eddy Merckx Cycles.
The Royal Australian Air Force operated 32 Grumman Trackers between 1967 and 1984, a few remain preserved and this one stands at the National Vietnam Veterans Museum on Phillip Island.