Sunday, August 3, 2008

Either you hate it or you love it

THE OUTBACK!
We are well and truely in the middle of it. We have seen some beautiful and historically very interesting places at Mungo Nationalpark or in the old mining town Burra for example. After traveling through the impressive Flinders Ranges with their gently rolling hills, we got our first real Outback experience along the Oodnadatta Track. Here the colours are prominent red, brown, orche, sometimes green and most of the time it's a big open space that makes us looking very small! We are impressed by the people that started mining or working on the railways almost 100 years ago, without water and the conveniences of modern life technologie that we take for granted every day.

The Flinders Ranges











One of the many stunning sunsets(at Copley)












Andy eating Camel and Emu at the legendary Prarie Hotel.















Coward spring, a warm welcoming bath in the middle of nowhere
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History along the Oodnatta track - Tom Kruse mailrun












The ruins of Farina - a story of failure due to the lack of water

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