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Road trip with my son Cooper November 2015 - Saturday 14/11 - Day 1 took us to Cooma NSW
Sunday 15/11 - Day 2 - Snowy Mountains Highway, between Cooma and Talbingo NSW
Sunday 15/11 - Day 2 - Cooper on the dam wall Talbingo NSW, Jounama Pondage in background
Sunday 15/11 - Day 2 - Poplar trees between Talbingo and Tumut NSW. My folks took a picture in the same place sometime in the 1950's
Sunday 15/11 - Day 2 - Cooper did say he wanted to experience big country
Sunday 15/11 - Day 2 - Big 4 Caravan Park, Hay NSW
Monday 16/11 - Day 3 - Agriculture on an industrial scale, Hay Plain NSW
Monday 16/11 - Day 3 - Euston NSW on the Murray River - The large tanks are the town water supply
Monday 16/11 - Day 3 - Our first sighting of the Murray River at Euston NSW
Monday 16/11 - Day 3 - Wentworth NSW, the meeting of the Murray and Darling Rivers
Monday 16/11 - Day 3 - Arrive at Renmark SA, Big 4 Caravan Park on the Murray River
Tuesday 17/11 - Day 4 - Rest day at Renmark, Golfing, Canoeing and Swimming
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Morgan SA on the Murray River, the river swings south here to Encounter Bay, south of Adelaide SA
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Morgan SA, tiny town with two big pubs
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Heading north from Morgan into the outback
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Near Burra SA
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Main Street Burra SA
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Further inland travellingf north from Burra
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - First really good view of Flinders Ranges
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Rawnsley Park Station, Flinders Ranges SA - Wilpena Pound in background
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Rawnsley Park Station, Flinders Ranges SA
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Accommodation at Hawker Big 4 Caravan Park
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - View from Hawker Caravan Park, looking towards Wilpena Pound
Wednesday 18/11 - Day 5 - Galahs at sunset, Hawker SA
Wednesday 19/11 - Day 6 - Outback Highway on the way to Merna Mora Station
Thursday 19/11 - Day 6 - View of Merna Mora Homestead at dusk
Thursday 19/11 - Day 6 - We stayed in the single man's huts on Merna Mora Station for two nights
Thursday 19/11 - Day 6 - Gorge Drive East of Merna Mora - Temperature 43 degrees celsius, westerly wind like a fan-forced oven. At least the wind kept the flies at bay
Thursday 19/11 - Day 6 - Merna Mora - Path to the station airfield where there is a good view to Wilpena Pound
Thursday 19/11 - Day 6 - Sunset at Merna Mora airfield looking east toward Wilpena Pound
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Sunrise at Merna Mora Station, looking toward the main homestead
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Station Equipment Merna Mora
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Old tractor? - Merna Mora Station
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Looking across to Merna Mora woolshed from my window in the single man's huts
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Woolshed Tour during shearing season, Merna Mora Station. Cooper attempting to move 190kg Wool Bale under the instruction of Pommy Mark
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Inside the woolshed, wool classer in foreground with shearers and helpers in the background
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Shearing in full swing
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Effing Mark counting sheep after shearing
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - On the way to Wilpena Pound. One of the many emus spotted along the roads
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Web-sourced photo of Wilpena Pound to an give idea of scale. Merana Mora is off to the left and Edeowie is directly behind the saddle in the far distance.
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Making our way into Wilpena Pound
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Wangarra Lookout Wilpena Pound looking into the pound - Hard climb (at least for me)
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Coop at Wangarra Lookout, Interior of Wilpena Pound in background
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Coop in front of the old Hills Homestead Wilpena Pound. Originally built in 1888 as a pug and pine shepherd's hut before being replaced in early 1900's by the stone hut
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - Farm equipment at The Hills Homestead Wilpena Pound - Old water tank used as a heavy roller.
Friday 20/11 - Day 7 - After visiting Wilpena Pound we drove north toward Blinman but were stopped by a car problem.
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - Windmills Merna Mora station
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - On the walk from Merna Mora homestead to station lookout. The homestead is just visible in the background
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - Quorn SA
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - Quorn SA
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - Ruins of Kanyaka Homestead between Quorn and Hawker
Saturday 21/11 - Day 8 - Ruins of Kanyaka Homestead between Quorn and Hawker
Sunday 22/11 - Day 9 - Road to Edeowie Station
Sunday 22/11 - Day 9 - View from cottage to Edeowie homestead
Sunday 22/11 - Day 9 - View from the cottage on Edeowie Station
Sunday 22/11 - Day 9 - Another view from the cottage on Edeowie Station looking towards Wilpena Pound
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Walk up to base of Wilpena Pound on Edeowie Station
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Edeowie woolshed
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Edeowie, inside the woolshed
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Corellas on the wing - Edeowie Station
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Corellas in the trees - as you can see they do a lot of damage
Monday 23/11 - Day 10 - Long fence - Edeowie Station
Tuesday 24/11 - Day 11 - Cooper with the owners of Edeowie Station before we start the drive home.
Great hosts. They made us very welcome and answered lots of our naive questions
Tuesday 24/11 - Day 11 - Cooper outside Prairie Hotel - Parachilna SA
Tuesday 24/11 - Day 11 - Drove to Broken Hill NSW
Tuesday 24/11 - Day 11 - By now Coop was ignoring the emus - Broken Hill NSW
Wednesday 25/11 - Day 13 - We stayed two nights in Silverton 25km from Broken Hill and 5km from Mundi Mundi Plains
Until 1889 Silverton had a population of up to 3000. Today the population is 34.
Wednesday 25/11 - Day 13 - Sunset in the Mundi Mundi Plains, could not capture the massive scale of this amazing view
Wednesday 25/11 - Day 13 - Silverton Municipal Chambers. One of the stone buildings not moved to Broken Hill
Wednesday 25/11 - Day 14 - Even the horses come to Silverton Hotel for a drink...
Wednesday 25/11 - Day 13 - Lunch at the Silverton Cafe.
Back home Imogen and Belinda planting Priscilla the Tibouchina - new beginnings
Rough map of journey - clockwise from Sydney to Sydney
Road Trip
Trois Gymnopedies - flute | Twilight - alto sax