Planning is underway for the next great Two Sheilas in a Ute outback adventure.
Helen has another couple of months off work, so we’re heading out. This time most likely to Uluru.
I say most likely, because one of the objectives of the trip is to get out of the cold, and believe me, it gets cold at Uluru in June!
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Two Sheilas in a Ute – we’re off again!
Posted in The outback, travel, Two sheilas in a ute, tagged 4WD, adventure travel, Australia, Northern Territory, outback, Queensland, travel, Uluru on April 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Photo of the week – Golden sunset Menindee Lake
Posted in photos, rural nsw, The outback, tagged art, Australia, Menindee, photo, photography, sunset on April 4, 2013|
The third in the Lake Menindee series is this gorgeous photo of a golden sunset.
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Top tips for outback travellers
Posted in The outback, travel, Travel tips, tagged 4WD, Australia, camping, off the beaten track, outback travel, travel tips on March 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I did an interview with ABC radio while I was in Broken Hill on my last trip. They asked me what advice I’d give to other women wanting to travel through the outback. My response at the time was “go for it”. While this still stands, following are the top tips for new travellers based on my own experience:
Is this an official drought?
Posted in photos, the farm, tagged Australia, burrinjuck dam, drought, flood, Murrumbidgee River, NSW, photos on March 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We’re back on the farm. Last week when Doc rang the farm manager about coming down, he said they were feeding sheep – they were in drought.
I was gobsmacked (I love that word). I didn’t think there was any part of NSW that wasn’t now flooded, and in Wollongong I almost can’t remember the last hot, dry day. We might have had the hottest January on record, but I’ll bet we also had the wettest February.
So here are the photos, you judge for yourself whether you think there might be a drought.
Can you have a wilderness without trees?
Posted in photos, The outback, tagged Australia, countryside, juump up, NSW, outback, scrub, trees, wild, wilderness on March 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been having discussions about what “wilderness” means. For me the word conjures up images of trees, trees and more trees, but so many “wild” places aren’t like that at all.
Wikepedia defines it as:
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity. It may also be defined as: “The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet—those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.
Characters of outback Australia
Posted in The outback, Two sheilas in a ute, tagged Australia, Coober Pedy, Jock, Lightning Ridge, mining, New South Wales, NSW, opals, outback, White Cliffs on February 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The inimitable Jock, at Jock’s Place in White Cliffs, outback NSW. White Cliffs is in the middle of nowhere. There was nothing at all there until a couple of roo shooters found opal in 1889 and the rest, as they say, is history.
Jock is one of the many characters you find in the outback. For $5 he’ll show you around his “dug out”, as they call the old – and new – honeycomb tunnels of the underground opal mines where they all live. Being underground provides relief from the outside temperatures which are often over 40 degrees celsius.
New life returning to the Warrambungles
Posted in photos, rural nsw, Two sheilas in a ute, tagged Australia, Australian bush, bushfire, fire, flood, national park, NSW, Warrumbungles on February 9, 2013| 1 Comment »
As promised – photos of the Warrambungles. Burnt out, flooded but returning to life.
First night camping
Posted in photos, rural nsw, travel, Two sheilas in a ute, tagged ants, Australia, Australian bush, camping, cockatoos, fishing, gums, Macquarie River, sunset on February 5, 2013| 1 Comment »
We’re back on the Macquarie, camped a few kilometres outside Warren. It must be the Macquarie because there’s water in it, though not nearly as much as there was only recently. The banks are still muddy up to a metre and a half above the current water level. And it’s lined with gum trees, and birds.
A beautiful place to stop and camp.
Except for all those ants – is there 4 square metres of Australian bush that isn’t covered with ants? Even the ash in the old campfire site has ants all over, around and through it. But we set up anyway.
Sunrise on the beach, with just the birds and the fishermen
Posted in photos, tagged Australia, Beach, NSW, Port Kembla, summer, sun, sunrise, Wollongong on January 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I love mornings. When I can get out of bed that is.
Even at the beach in summer you can have time and space to yourself. Even the sun puts on a great show for you.
(more…)Fish & chips for dinner … and feeding the birds
Posted in life, photos, tagged Australia, fish & chips, holidays, Illawarra, Lake Illawarra, pelicans, seagulls, south coast NSW, summer, Wollongong on January 9, 2013| 3 Comments »
Remember all those summer holidays when you were a kid? It doesn’t matter where you went for your holidays, it was always fish & chips for dinner. And now it’s the same with the kids and grandkids – fish & chips for dinner by the water in summer. Of course, feeding the birds is all a part of it. And in our part of the world, that means pelicans!
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