Category: South Australia
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Colonial expedition photographs: an absence
I have been going through books on early photography in South Australia looking for 19th century photographs of the northern Flinders Ranges and northern South Australia. I was expecting to find examples of colonial expedition photography,
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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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Terrapina Gorge + Tors
I mentioned in the earlier maps and territories post that on Day 8 we’d made our way to a camp near Terrapinna Gorge in the north east of the Flinders Ranges, and that we had an afternoon to explore both the gorge and the Terrapinna Tors. By this stage I was beginning to develop a…
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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…
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in the Hamilton Valley
Walking through the Hamilton Valley on days 5 and 6 of the camel trek meant slowly making our way through the malaleucas that were growing in the stony creek bed of the very dry Hamilton Creek.
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pastoralism
The area we were walking through in the northern Flinders is known as South Australia’s Far North, which starts from the town of Blinman. The region has low rainfall mainly in winter, and averages about 200 mm/yr. It has very old hard rocks that were deposited between 500 million and 1,000 million years ago when…
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Andamooka, South Australia
As I have been going through my archives I realised that my travelling along the long road to the north did not start with the trip to Lajamanu as I had previously thought. I had actually been to Andamooka twice on roadtrips. The first road trip to Andamooka was in the 1990s where I had…
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The camel trek solution
I found the solution to my predicament about how I could photograph in northern South Australia. I could do a camel trek with experienced cameliers. The camels would carry the swag, food and water, we would do the walking and the cameleers would guide us through the remote, semi-arid landscape. So we booked a 12…
The Long Road to the North 