My Blog - Member - Stephen L (Clare SA)

Four Great Days on the Yorke Peninsula

The weeks leading up to the January 2013 Australia Day Long Weekend were nothing but tortious, with the temperature topping 49° C for a few days in a row here in Clare,...

The Recovery of Burke and Wills Remains - Clare’s link.

Here is a very brief overview of the events that lead to the recovery of the remains of Burke and Wills from the Cooper Creek in the far north east of South Australia in ...

Shackle Road Drive - Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third largest Island and is very unique in both terms of Fauna and Flora with many species found no where else living or growing naturally in ...

Maralinga Trip Wildflowers - August 2012

Australian Deserts are very unique and may be Deserts in name, but given the right conditions will burst into life with displays of vivid colours with some very special ...

Maralinga and back to the Anne Beadell Highway

Back in late 2011 I received an email from a fellow EO Member asking me some information about one of the places that he would like to visit during his March 2012 ...

Cairns and Tropical Far North Queensland

June 2012 Back in February when we were putting the final destinations for our holidays for the year together,...

Stone Cairns and Trig Points - What are they?

Over the years with our travels around this great country of ours, there has been one type of special landmark feature that gets my attention and for a special reason ...

Danggali Conservation Park Drive - Heading for another ...

Sunday 1st April 2012 was to be a special day for a couple of very good reasons. Firstly if the days outing was successful,...

Burra Heritage Trail

Being only a few weeks away from Easter, we did not have anything planned for the March 2012 Adelaide Cup Long weekend and decided that it would be an easy 3 day brake,...

Australia Day 2012 at Moonta

Seeing that we only had the Australia Day Public Holiday off of work, we decided to make the most of this special day and perfect weather conditions and made an early start ...

Make Your Blog Stand Out

You have taken the time and effort to compose your Blog, so make it stand out with images that you have taken during your travels or holidays. If you are like me,...

Acacia peuce - Waddy Wood

Nationally listed as vulnerable, and classified as endangered in the Northern Territory, Acacia peuce can only be found in a few remote desert locations in Australia,...

Acacia pickardii - Mount Gason Wattle

The Birdsville Track reveals many treasures to the observant traveller. One such treasure is a little known wattle, only discovered 40 years ago....

Kangaroo Island – October 2011 - A Perfect Family Holiday ...

Back in March Fiona and I spent 10 fun filled days over on Kangaroo Island and it was a great disappointment to have to leave the Island,...

Kangaroo Island Wildflowers – October 2011

Believing that mid spring would be a very good time to revisit Kangaroo Island to see the local display of Wildflowers,...

Spring Gully Conservation Park - Wildflowers October 2011

The now 398 ha Conservation Park was first gazetted as a Wildlife Reserve in 1962. The original Reserve was only just fifteen acres in size and over time the Wildlife ...

Wildflowers of the Birdsville Track and Simpson Desert

Depending on what time of the year you visit this normally parched desert landscape of South Australia and Queensland,...

Birdsville Track – What is there to See Along the Way?

One of Australia’s important Stock Routes was to become a legendary track and today nearly 150 years later since it was first opened, is as important now as it was then....

Kayaking in the Simpson Desert.

High on the list of most four-wheel drivers “to do list” would be a Simpson Desert crossing. Those that do the crossing will either fall into one of two categories and we ...

Our Return to the Cooper - It just gets better August 2011

After our first visit to the Cooper Creek Ferry site in June 2010, it was one Outback destination that we had to return to....

Kangaroo Island - South Australia’s Forgotten Destination

Back in March of this year, Fiona and I spent nine memorable days over on Kangaroo Island and enjoyed our stay that much,...

Farina – The forgotten Town of the Outback

The next time you are passing the old Farina ruins, either heading north or south from Marree, drop in on this little piece of South Australian history and take the ...

The Quandong – The Blog

Back in late January of this year while taking a drive over to Moonta, we stopped to check out some local Quandong trees that we have driven past countless times ...

Mistletoe – ‘Box Mistletoe’

Mistletoes are parasites. This diverse group of plants has over 1500 species found throughout the world. 91 species have been found in Australia and experts believe ...

Kangaroo Island Wildflowers - March 2011

Back in January when we had a few days of 40° C plus in temperature, it was time to think about a short little break and immediately thought of Kangaroo Island (KI as it is ...