Category: myth
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Remembrance?
When I drove through Gawler the other day on my way north I I sent some time walking around the town:. I came across this powerful image in a shop window relating to WW1, and more specifically to November 11, the anniversary of the armistice which ended fighting on the Western Front of what was…
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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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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…
The Long Road to the North 