Category: architecture
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Iron Knob + history
When I made a quick visit to the Eyre Peninsula in late 2023 with Maleko, our standard poodle, we camped overnight at Iron Knob in South Australia’s Middleback Range. I wanted to spend some time walking around this old mining town to see what was left. I had briefly visited it in passing through the…
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Quorn: colonial history + photography
On Wednesday July 27th we cleaned up Nudlamutana hut in the morning, packed the Outback Subaru, and slowly drove to Blinman via the Yunta Road. We had lunch at Blinman — a pastie – -then drove onto Quorn. We stayed in a cabin in the Quorn caravan park and had a pub dinner at the…
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Balcanoona shearing shed
My time in the early morning before breakfast at Balcanonna was spent wandering around and inside the old shearing shed. I didn’t have that much time in the morning to wander too far between sunrise and breakfast as we had to be ready to meetup for the daily walks between 8.30-9am. The shearing shed was…
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Camel Trek to Lake Frome: Day 1
The camel trek from Blinman to Lake Frome through Mt Chambers Gorge took place in late May 2021. Blinman’s history is one of copper mining. This was successful during the 1860s and the town was built on its success. The mine lasted until 1918 when the ore finally ran out. We arrived late at Blinman…
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Reflections on 2018 camel trek
The photographs on the 2018 camel trek to Mt Hopeless were made naively, with little awareness of the geological history of the Flinders Rangers. I had a vague awareness that the southern Flinders Rangers were conventionally seen as barren, desolate, empty and hostile — a wasteland, desert or timeless land. This is in contrast to…
The Long Road to the North 