30 January 2008

2002 Desert Expedition

Posted by Mick under: 4WD; Expeditions; Photos .

The photos of my 29 day expedition through the desert regions of South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia in 2002 have just been added to the ExpeditionOz Photo Library.

I covered a huge area, driving around 14,000km in the 29 days and took a heap of photos including shots of the following (listed in alphabetical order): Aboriginal rock art, jumping crocodiles at the Adelaide River, Alice Springs, Arnhem Land from a plane, Ayers Rock / Uluru, Blyth, Boab trees including the Prison Tree, the Bungle Bungle Ranges, camels, the Cat Tree, the Chamberlain River, the Daly River, Darwin, lots of desert terrain, the Devils Marbles, Docker River, my dscvry, Dundee Beach, the East Alligator River, the Finke River, the Gibb River Road, Giles, Giles-Mulga Park Road, the Great Central Road, Grosse Bluff, the Gunbarrel Highway, Island Lagoon, the site of the Island Lagoon NASA tracking station, Kakadu National Park, the Karunjie Track, Kata Tjuta, Kulpi Tjuntinya, Kununurra, Lake Eyre, Lake Hart, Lasseters Cave, Len Beadell paintings, Len Beadells grader, Len Beadells grave site, Litchfield National Park, the Lost City, Nourlangie, Olga Gorge, Oodnadatta and the Oodnadatta Track, Palm Valley and its rare Red Cabbage Palms, the Petermann Ranges, Rum Jungle, the Tanami Desert, the Tanami Road, The Olgas, Tjukururu Road, Tjunti, the Ubirr art site, Warakurna, the West Arm, Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Woomera, the Woomera Rocket Park and areas of the Woomera Rocket Range and Wyndham with its crocodile farm…like i said…I was gone for 29 days.

I’ve made a few trips out to this amazing part of Australia, and even though I’m more of a mountain person at heart, I love spending time in terrain that is so different from what I was surrounded by while i was growing up. Hopefully i can plan a trip out to the region again in the near future…but this time with my good 10 MegaPixel still camera and a video camera as well :)

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