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The Curdimurka rail siding – near Lake Eyre South in the SA outback – saw its first train in 1888.
The last one went through in 1980, nearly three decades after the pictured water tank and gigantic water softener lost their raison d’être, when diesel electrics replaced steam locomotives in 1951.
This “big softie” was erected in 1943-44, so its working life was very brief.
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Today’s photo shows a repeatedly-pleasing aspect of our June 2023 “outback” trip: it included a surprisingly large number of sightings of Australia’s largest raptor.
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Some of Australia’s mines are many thousands of years older than most Australians realise…and enormously more colourful.
A spectacular and easily-accessed example sits in desert, circa 600 kilometres north of Adelaide, just outside a quasi-“ghost” town.
A formerly-important “railway town”, Lyndhurst saw its last train in 1980, but is still the crossroads for the Oodnadatta and Strzelecki Tracks
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Northern South Australia and the south of the Northern Territory are deservedly celebrated for their vast, “cinematic” landscapes.
Any visitor can hardly fail to be in awe of the big skies, the far-distant horizons, and the extravagantly colourful, harsh/glorious, obviously-ancient terrain.
Too many visitors, however, fail to pay attention to what’s literally right in front of them, or just behind, or immediately above them.
The “small” view – of whatever is within “touching distance” – is almost always at least as rewarding as is any “sweeping plains and rugged mountain ranges” perspective.
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Is there a Great “Martesian” Basin, from which water “escapes” in certain places, forming petite “oases” on the planet’s otherwise “desolate” surface?
This gushing – or seeping – water originally arrived from the sky as rain… many thousands of human generations ago, when the proverbially dry Mars was a very wet place.
As you can see, the new photographic evidence is compelling.
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Above, is the most “heraldic” photo I have taken of a Forest red-tailed black cockatoo.
She is the same individual as in #20, this post’s “moment” happened a fraction of a second earlier.
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Late afternoon, in a recently-burnt section of Shenton Bushland, a female Forest red-tailed black cockatoo spreads both wings and tail..
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From behind, as a female Forest red-tailed black cockatoo “lifts off” from a so-called “Cape Lilac” tree…
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“Routine maintenance”.
Our heroine is more spectacular than the “average” bird, but in this photo she is engaging in a necessary activity which all birds undertake.
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This post’s heroine is the same individual as in this series previous chapter.
Very few seconds elapsed between their two moments.
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