Category: Flinders Ranges
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Camel Trek to Lake Frome: Wirrealpa Mine
I was able to do some hand held film photography with the Rolleiflex TLR in the early morning of Day 4 in the creek bed opposite our camp. (The film still needs to be processed). I was starting again after losing the previous roll of photos made during the previous three days. This was Adnyamanthanha…
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Camel Trek to Lake Frome: Day 2
It had been a warm night sleeping in the swag in the open air. Breakfast was around 6.30am in front of a fire. It was a cloudy morning and there was no wind. The aim of the 2nd day’s walk was to leave 2nd plain and reach 3rd plain, which also runs north south between…
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E.C. Frome’s expedition to Lake Frome
Three years have passed since the 2018 camel trek from Umberatana to Mt Hopeless. In early 2021 we decided to undertake another camel trek, this time to go east from Blinman through the Flinders Ranges via Chambers Gorge then follow Chambers Creek to Lake Frome. Early in 2021 I had come across some historical material…
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Mt Hopeless
Finally we made it to Mt Hopeless. It was just a morning walk across a gibber plain from the over night camp on the dusty clay plain. 12 days walking with the camels had come to an end. The snapshot below is looking south across the camel train to where we had walked. It is…
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the final leg
We camped the night on a dusty plain before walking to Mt Hopeless the following morning.
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Captain Sweet, the Flinders + topographics
In 1882 Sweet travelled on, and photographed along, the Great Northern Line from Port Augusta to Farina
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Camels + walking
The cameleer history and its material culture from 1860-1920 has largely been forgotten. Little remains of this heritage. We have a fragmented history of an era that has almost slipped from view.
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The dog fence + photographic eye
Day 11 was a 15 kilometre walk on a mild, dry winters day through Murnpeowie Station, over stony plains, lunch at Mundawatana Creek, then across a gibber plain, through the dog fence to a camp on a clay plain. Most of the trees were confined to creek beds and run-off areas. As we walked through…
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Mt Babbage + photography
On Day 10 walking we left the Terrapinna Gorge and Tors, turned away from the ephemeral Hamilton Creek and started to make our way north to the end point of the northern Flinders Ranges. We were over half way to Mt Hopeless. It was sunny with a blue sky and just the odd cloud –not…
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the Adnyamathanha
There was very little discussion of the colonial history in the northern Flinders Ranges on the camel trek about what happened to the Adnyamathanha people in the northern Flinders Ranges. The history that was referred to, and talked about, was settler history: explorers, pastoralism, mining, Mawson’s expeditions using camels, and white men walking the northern…
The Long Road to the North 