Circular Pool Archives - Australia by Red Nomad OZ

Big Bend, Murray River via Swan Reach, South Australia

13 Australian Place Names that WON’T keep you guessing …

September 16, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australian Round Up, Big Bend, Black Mountain, Black Rock Falls, Boulder Beach, Circular Pool, Five Rivers Lookout, Mt Buffalo, Pink Lake, Porcupine Gorge, Redbank Gorge, Redbanks, Rhino Head, Snowy River, The Pyramid, Yellow Water

Even without maps to guide them, Australian place names mean visitors to Australia – whether overseas tourists or aliens from beyond the Southern Cross – need not fear losing their way. In some parts of Australia, anyway. Thanks to the daring imagination and colourful speech of our colonial past, working out your location can be as simple as describing what[…]

Sunset at Dales Gorge, Karijini National Park, Western Australia

Walk Dales Gorge! Karijini National Park, Western Australia

August 4, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Campsites, Circular Pool, Dales Gorge, Fern Pool, Fortescue Falls, Gorges, Karijini National Park, Lookout, National Parks, Outback, Pilbara, Things to do, Walks, Western Australia

The Evening Before … I gripped the railing and looked through the deep shadows down the deep RED gash of Dales Gorge. WAAAAAY down. Late afternoon at the lookout meant the sun was long gone from the gorge floor. Even though it had lit up the eastern wall quite spectacularly. Ho Hum. Another day in the Pilbara, another killer landscape[…]