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Signs #9 – Happy Campers!

January 11, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Flinders Ranges, National Parks, Signs, South Australia

Either that, or campers with WAAAAAY too much time on their hands! This rocky greeting was sighted just after the October 2010 school holidays - so perhaps it was a bored kids project!! In a mystery location somewhere between Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges National Park, the sign is a tragic reminder of the effects of the[…]

OZ Top Spot #5 – Kanyaka Ruins, Flinders Ranges, SA

January 6, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Flinders Ranges, Kanyaka, Ruins, South Australia, Travel

What happens in a world where resources are divided equally, with equal opportunity for developing and managing them through good times and bad, and with an equal chance of success or failure? No, I’m not paraphrasing ‘Imagine’, writing the manifesto for a great big new mining tax or plotting a new version of ‘Monopoly’! But visit the Kanyaka Station ruins[…]

Australia’s Scenic Public Toilets #9 – Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges SA

December 3, 2010 Red Nomad OZ Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges, Gorges, National Parks, Scenic Public Toilets, South Australia

A public toilet in Teamsters Campground?? Sounds like something the Village People could be proud of!! Or is that just me … Go west – or at least to the western end of Brachina Gorge, deep in the heart of South Australia’s magnificent Flinders Ranges! Teamsters Campground is the perfect spot from which to explore the pre-historic strata layers of the gorge’s geological trail more[…]

Traveller SHAME Files #4 – The Hills are Alive!!

November 13, 2010 Red Nomad OZ Flinders Ranges, Other Stuff, South Australia, Travel

I can’t wait to see the most recent addition to South Australia’s ‘anti-hoon’ laws enacted! For those unfamiliar with laws peculiar to this sometimes draconian state, legislation penalising certain automobile related behaviours – such as drag racing, laying rubber and doing burn-outs – can result in the offender’s vehicle being impounded or confiscated. That’s the simplified version, anyway. And while[…]