Kanyaka Archives - Australia by Red Nomad OZ

Signs #11 – What’s the Problem?

February 17, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Flinders Ranges, Kanyaka, Signs, South Australia

What do overseas visitors make of Australia’s more esoteric pictorial instructions? Space constraints mean non-English wording is often limited – or non-existent! So the sign designer is stuck with conveying important, but sometimes obscure facts and instructions with stick figures. Their success necessarily relies on reader ability to immediately interpret the pictures correctly and heed their warnings and messages without[…]

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[…]