Category: trees
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A Flinders creek bed
A note on Photographic Exceptionalism The pictures are of early morning light on tree roots of red river gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis,) in Benbibuta Creek in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. They were made with a Rolleiflex TLR whilst I was on a camel trek from Blinman to Lake Frome in 2021. When I…
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to Bunyip Chasm
It was a slow drive in the Subaru Outback from the Nudlamutana Hut where we staying to Bunyip Chasm via the Mt McTaggart track, then on part of the Wortupa Loop Track in the Illinawortina Pound. We carefully drove to Grindell’s Hut and then onto Loch Ness Well campground. It took us around 3.5 hours.…
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Weetoolta Gorge
The first days C grade walk on the RASA Bushwalkers camp was in the Balcanoona Range. It was overcast as we walked along Worturpa Creek to Weetoolta Spring had morning coffee at the junction of the Balcanoona and Worturpa creeks, then walked along Belcanoona Creek to Grindells Hut. We had lunch at the hut, which…
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Mt Chambers Gorge
After leaving the side gorge with its rock drawings we continued walking through Mt Chambers Gorge (Marlawadinha Inbiri) with its high orange coloured limestone walls and big river gums during the afternoon of the 28th May. Ptilotus or mulla mulla with the purple, pink, silver, and yellow candlestick flowers were growing profusely in the creek…
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Camel Trek to Lake Frome: Tea Tree Gorge
Day 3 of the camel trek to Lake Frome consited of waalking across 3rd plain, walking through Tea Tree Gorge and finding a fossil sponge.
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maps + territory
On this stage of walking the country I was reminded of Baudrillard’s proposition in Simulacra and Simulation (1981) that the map precedes the territory.
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walking in the Blue Mine Creek bed
At the end of the first day of walking we camped at a wonderful campsite close to Blue Mine Gap on the north western edge of the Gammon Ranges. We were walking in there of Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1906 explorations into the geology of the northern Flinders Ranges. In the 1920s and 1930s Mawson amongst others…
The Long Road to the North 