Outback #4

Cooper Creek at Innaminka

Dusk at Innaminka. The horizon was a purple-blue colour the whole way 'round.

Back to the Innaminka Hotel for tea.

One view from Innaminka.

Another view from .........

Rain shower over the plains between Lake Frome and the Flinders Ranges

Wilpeena Pound again.

Port Augusta. The very end of the Gulf.

Whyalla. We dropped in to see Julie's mother.

The airstrip at Pt. Pirie. We made it!

The survivors of our expedition.

A flower to finish

Outback #3

Leaving Birdsville

The country north of Birdsville is amazingly green

The Channel country

More Channel country

Longreach. Cathy in a DC3

Brolgas at the Stockman's Hall of Fame

Cathy teaching the brolgas to dance (reminds you of Anne, doesn't it?)

Bonnie & Bonnie and Clyde & Clyde

The Cobb and Co team.

On a paddle steamer on the Thomson river. Boat Captain's joke: "The Thomson is the cleanest river in Australia - there's no 'P' in it."

The Thomson at dusk.

The ONLY two kangaroos we saw, in over 3000 km of Outback.

The influence of the river on the desert. Green for a few km on either side of the river.

At the Dig Tree. Just after we arrived, another light plane flew in, and the pilot was Andrew Ellis, the son of the owner of our old bridge club. We've known him for years.

Cooper Creek at the Dig Tree

Pelicans.

We thought they were nice until a flight went past, 500 ft higher than we were. (We were at 4500 ft!)

Leaving for Innaminka

Outback #2

The lagoon at Moorileena Station

Sunset, Day 1.

The cooks.

Tuesday morning, approaching Lake Eyre North.

The mouth of Cooper Creek. The Cooper is flowing all the way to the lagoon in the middle distance, then stops at a sandbank on the edge of Lake Eyre,

The following photos show the Warburton River entering Lake Eyre. Because the lake is only 60% full, the Warburton Groove (the channel cut by the river into the lake bed) is visible. The Groove goes for about 40 km. The thin blue line at the top of the picture below is the Groove.

The Groove, looking north (out of the Lake)

The Warburton River.

North of Lake Eyre. The country is amazingly green.

Coffee at Birdsville

The lagoon at Birdville.

Sunset at B........

The Birdsville Boozer