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DC ELECTRICS - Building a 12 Volt DC Power System for your ...
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By my way of thinking, one of the rules of remote outback travel, or any outback travel really is the fact that your vehicle should be maintained to the high
Created: 20 May 2013 22:22
A taste of the Canning - Videos to motivate (or make you ...
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Over the years I've been fortunate enough to travel on various sections of the Canning. I was able to capture my most recent trips on Video and whilst many of these are ...
Created: 13 Feb 2013 16:05
A couple of days at the Buchan Caves, East Gippsland.
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With a few days off between Xmas and New Year, Queen Vik and I decided to take the Crown Prince on a mini camping break to get away from it all....
Created: 01 Jan 2013 18:05
BEARS! - Not ours....theirs! The real ones, the big ones,...
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We were warned that Bears would be our number one concern whilst exploring the backwoods and wild river country of the Yukon and Alaska so it almost developed into paranoia ...
Created: 20 Oct 2012 20:06
CANADA 2012 - "There are strange things done in the midnight ...
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There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The ...
Created: 05 Sep 2012 00:00
CANADA - A Surprise Vision from Hell!! (and then on to Hyder ...
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Monday 27th August
Morchuca Lake Reserve
Highway 37 - British Columbia.
The mozzies dropped off once we decided to head to bed so a good night’s sleep was had....
Created: 27 Aug 2012 00:00
CANADA - The Backwoods of BC, Bears and the Magnificent ...
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Sunday 26th August
Salmon Glacier
British Columbia
We were woken by the distinctive early morning calls of the loon (and possibly a wolf or coyote howling)....
Created: 26 Aug 2012 19:00
The Gary Junction Road - More bush welding (or what you do ...
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Monday 9th July, 2012
150 km east of Kiwirrkurra...5 km east of Mt Tietkens
An early start with a snappy breakfast in our Gary Junction Camp....
Created: 09 Jul 2012 00:00
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) - An apocalyptic drive to the Gary ...
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Sunday 8th July, 2012
Gary Junction Road-Gary Highway intersection
A bright, sunny and absolutely still morning....
Created: 08 Jul 2012 00:00
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) - DISCOVERY - The reward for ...
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Saturday 7th July, 2012
DQB, Rudall River
Today was simply a great day, a day of discovery and the feeling of elation that comes with it....
Created: 07 Jul 2012 00:00
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) - An "OH SHIT" moment near the ...
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Friday 6th July, 2012
Desert Queen Baths,
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park. WA
We were up early into a beautiful, still dawn....
Created: 06 Jul 2012 00:00
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) - To Darlsen Pinnacle from the ...
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Thursday 5th July, 2012
The days mission was to scout a possible route to Darlsen Pinnacle from the south. What were we thinking?...
Created: 05 Jul 2012 00:00
Karlamilyi (Rudall River) - A bustard of a day (Plains Turkey ...
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Wednesday 4th July, 2012
Tjarra Pool, Karlamilyi
I had a restless night for some reason not made easier by the skin irritation I seem to have picked up....
Created: 04 Jul 2012 00:00
Talawana Tales - West to Midway Well, Capricorn Roadhouse ...
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Tuesday 3rd July, 2012
Talawana Track west of Georgia Bore
It was a racing breakfast this morning to enable us to be on the track nice and early. Once underway,...
Created: 03 Jul 2012 19:00
ON THE DIRT AT LAST - West on the Giles-Mulga Park Road NT ...
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Saturday 16th June, 2012
Giles Mulga Park Road, Northern Territory
For some reason I awoke well before 5:00 a.m. listening to the unseen hunters of the night,...
Created: 16 Jun 2012 00:00
Steaming up the Stuart - The slow grind north - 2012 ...
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Friday 15th June, 2012
Stuart Highway North of Coober Pedy SA
We got a good start on our northward travels this morning and had the cruise control set early....
Created: 15 Jun 2012 00:00
Heading north to Port Augusta and the Stuart - 2012 Adventures
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Thursday 14th June, 2012
Stuart Highway north of Port Augusta
The sound of rain on canvas bought me to my senses around 3.00 a.m....
Created: 14 Jun 2012 00:00
Our 2012 Adventures commence
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Wednesday 13th June, 2012
Near Lake Cullulleraine VIC
There is a very real problem with living in the eastern states....
Created: 13 Jun 2012 00:00
Unexpected Encounters with Australian Reptiles #7 - ...
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Centralian Blue tongue Tiliqua Multifasciata
Blue-tongued skinks comprise the Australasian genus, Tiliqua, which contains some of the largest members of the skink family ...
Created: 09 May 2012 21:22
Unexpected Encounters With Australian Reptiles #6 - The Woma ...
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The Woma python is a medium sized python commonly found in desert areas where they are aptly suited.
They have a very large distribution through northern Western ...
Created: 08 May 2012 21:56
Unexpected encounters with Australian Reptiles #5 - The Spiny ...
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I really enjoy stumbling across one of the many Goanna or Monitor species when travelling about the wide brown land. Even from the earliest days as kids,...
Created: 23 Apr 2012 00:00
Unexpected Encounters with Australian Reptiles #4 - Mitchells ...
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As the name suggests, the Mitchells Water Monitor loves the water. The monitor is semi-aquatic, a strong swimmer and seldom far from water....
Created: 19 Apr 2012 00:00
Bush Welding - Video
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This is a concept video I was asked to put together. The requirements were;
1. Short and sharp (around 35 seconds)
2. Educational (in some way,...
Created: 14 Mar 2012 21:52
Reptiles - The blog. Close encounters with our cold blooded ...
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One of the great things about travelling the wide brown land is marvelling at the diversity of the many ecosystems we pass through and of course,...
Created: 25 Feb 2012 00:00
Unexpected Encounters with Australian Reptiles #3 - The ...
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The Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus) is a native Australian lizard. It is also known as the Thorny Dragon, Mountain Devil, Thorny Lizard,...
Created: 04 Feb 2012 21:44
