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WA2021: Gisborne to Broken Hill

Mundi Mundi Plain where the original Mad Max movie was filmed.

Having spent a week wondering if and when we might be able to get away, we were delighted to hear that Victorian regional restrictions were to be lifted last Thursday at midnight. This meant that we managed to escape from Gisborne to Broken Hill on Friday (4 June). We decided to take the chance and not risk the outbreak increasing and/or creeping into regional areas. So, on Friday morning, we set off with the sole intention of crossing the border into NSW. This we succeeded in doing, but the journey since then has been anything but straightforward.

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10 June 2021 5 Comments
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WA2021: Contingency Planning

Having spent the first part of this year planning our three month trip to the Kimberley and WA coast, the recent Covd19 Outbreak and subsequent lockdown in Victoria meant that the last two week have been focused on contingency planning. The first step of this has resulted in us now being in Broken Hill, which, for us, is a significant cross roads – which way do we go?

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9 June 2021 7 Comments
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WA2021: Plans Thwarted

Bungle Bungles, Purnululu National Park, taken during my 2017 road trip

What makes a good plan is flexibility. When your plans are thwarted you should have at least one contingency – this is a position in which we now find ourselves.

In 2017, I was invited to join another photographer as co-driver on a five week road trip to the Kimberley that was being organised for about nine vehicles. Needless to say, I didn’t have to be asked twice – it was a great opportunity to see the Australia that exists beyond the main cities.

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3 June 2021 2 Comments
Abandoned Railway Bridge
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WA2021: Planning our Itinerary

Abandoned railway bridge off the Oodnadatta Track

Starting off as a seed of an idea to take 12 months out to travel around Australia, various factors limited us to firming up on a three-month road trip to the Kimberley and the West Coast. With that timeline set, we started planning our itinerary at the beginning of the year. This turned out to be a rather more challenging process than we first thought.

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3 June 2021 4 Comments
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VIC2021: Campgrounds – Smoko

Bright in the autumn presents a magnificent display of colour that attracts crowds of visitors from far and wide. This of course means that accommodation, particularly after Covid 19 lockdowns, is at a premium. It was purely coincidence that I visited the area at this time of the year and fortunate that I decided to set up camp at Smoko Campground.

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3 May 2021 1 Comment

VIC2021: The Walks – Rollasons Falls Track

Having completed the Eurobin Falls Track earlier in the morning, my next stop 6 km up Mount Buffalo Road was the Rollasons Falls Track. This was listed as 1.9 km to the lower falls and 2 km tom the upper falls. In actual fact if you walk to both the total distance is 2.5 km. The Mount Buffalo National Park visitors guide advises that there is a short steep section at the end. This, in my opinion, is a bit of an understatement with regard to both ‘short’ and ‘at the end’.

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25 April 2021 No Comments

VIC2021: The Walks – Eurobin Falls

After a sleepless freezing cold night camping at Smoko Campground near Bright, I set out for Mount Buffalo National Park to tackle a couple of walks, the first of which was Eurobin Falls (yes, another waterfall to photograph is a good incentive to put on the hiking boots). After clear skies during the night, which enabled me to have a go at photographing the milky way at 5 o’clock in the morning, the day started overcast and deteriorated from there.

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23 April 2021 No Comments

VIC2021: The Walks – Tipperary Springs

My partner and I first discovered this walk a year ago and decided it would be a good one for us to lead one of the Gisborne Bushwalking Club organised walks. After a couple of subsequent of pre-walks, we finalised the route that fitted the broad club criteria – around 14 km and 5 hours including breaks. Of course, the one thing we could not plan for was the weather.

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13 April 2021 No Comments

VIC2021: Toolangi

With Easter weekend approaching, we decided to get away for a couple of nights, the main reason being to visit Healesville Sanctuary. Realising that this is traditionally a busy weekend, we opted for leaving on the Thursday to beat the rush and headed for Toolangi – the nearest free campground to Healesville. Never having been there before, we were pleasantly surprised with what we found.

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12 April 2021 No Comments

VIC2021: Visiting Toolangi Discovery Centre

Originally constructed in 1994, the Toolangi Discovery Centre was established as an educational facility for the full range of all school groups where they could learn about the local forest and animals through informative and entertaining presentations. It was operated at the time by the Department of Sustainability and the Environment (now the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning). The Centre was closed in 2012 due to it not complying with bushfire building requirements.

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12 April 2021 2 Comments

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