Brian surveys the line-up at the first stop at Injune.
Next morning, plans need changing. Find a comfy cafe to hang out.......
Open cut coal mine in Queensland.They seem to be everywhere now.
The dinosaur tracks at Lark Quarry. Difficult to photograph, but the large tracks are from a predator chasing the smaller dinosaurs across the mud. Skid marks show the panic.....
The Georgina River
Phosphate Hill fertilizer mine. The circle is for trains to turn around.
A worked out mine in the Selwyn Ranges.
The abandoned Mary kathleen uranium mine. 1958 to 1982.
A typical road across outback Australia.
The air-conditioned waiting room at Urandangi airstrip.
Urandangi settlement. Small and tidy.
The line up at Boulia. Hans tying down his 701.
A bladder stop along the way.
Visiting the Aboriginal settlement.
Two days steady rain at Bond Springs. Most unusual for this time of year.
Luckily there was an empty hangar to camp in.
Wild camels.
Western MacDonnell Ranges. There's been good rain recently.
More MacDonnell Ranges.
The Pine Gap joint American/Australian 'defense base'. It moniters and interperets satelite communications worldwide.
Top secret, this is as close as we are allowed to go. Looks very mysterious....
One of the gorges where the rivers cut through the ranges. Must have been very mighty rivers in those days to cut such gorges through all that rock.
Another gorge cut through.
The Finke River cuts through the ranges.
Impressive rock formations.
Some amazing rock formations.
More evidence of powerful forces in the past.
A 'suburb' of caves. Difficult to get to, but penthouse views.
Kings Canyon. A popular tourist venue.
Kings Canyon from above.
At Hermannsburg Settlement. The box with the rock is for the flying mailman.
The Henbury meteorite craters.
Uluru (Ayers Rock) at fist light.
The start of a new day for the tourists at Ayers Rock.
It is a magnificent sight, eh.
The ever-changing view of The Rock.
Different moods of The Rock.
Approaching The Olgas, Kata Tjuta (many heads) to the Aboriginals.
Kata Tjuta and Uluru.
Mt Connor.
Refueling at Kulgera Roadhouse.
The Lambert Center of the Australian continent. Looks pretty much the same as elsewhere....
The Finke river far from the ranges of it's origin. It eventually just peters out in the desert.
Dalhousie Springs. Hot salty water spills out and evaporates to leave the deposits.
Classic Simpson Desert view.
The abandoned airstrip in the Simpson Desert. I landed there and camped the night.
Landed on the old airstrip.
Camped for the night.
That's a lonely gum tree, hundreds of miles from any of it's kind.
The gum tree seems to be surviving well in this harsh climate.
Salt pan patterns.
The most desolate part of the desert. All barren and salty.
Warburton Creek. The rain has fallen far away and 'irrigated' this part of the desert.
Recent unusual heavy rain has turned this part of the desert into a marsh.
Clifton Hills station, next to the crossed airstrips. Birdsville track going north.
The 'channel country' of the lower Cooper Creek.
More channels.
Very productive channel country with desert all round.
Hans preparing his essential morning porridge in his well-equipped camp. For more Outback Adventure flights see http://www.stolspeed.com/id/12
