Alice Springs to Mount Isa

At 5:50 a.m., ABC Alice Springs reported the refreshing temperature of 8°C. Tree silhouettes formed black lace against the deep blue of clear, desert sky as Vilis and I drove away from The Alice, beg...

Making Camel Tracks in the Desert

Taking photographs from the back of a camel is no easy task, as Vilis discovered this morning when he and I toured the desert south of Alice Springs by camel. I discovered that focusing binoculars fro...

Bushwalking More of West MacDonnell National Park, Northern Territory

Early this morning, while Vilis hiked to Ormiston Gorge Lookout and then to the creek to retrieve his hat, forgotten there last evening, I wandered the campground and bits of the Larapinta Trail (its ...

Bushwalking Trephina Gorge and West MacDonnell National Parks, Northern Territory

In the cold freshness of the desert dawn, pied butcherbirds, white-plumed honeyeaters, and yellow-throated miners serenaded Vilis and me into wakefulness in the campground at Trephina Gorge. In the ni...