Blencoe Falls, North Queensland

The photo below is of the Blencoe Falls in Tropical North Queensland. The Blencoe Falls lies within Girringun National Park and is part of the traditional lands of the Warungnu Aboriginal people.

This section of Girringun National Park is very remote and not easy to access, especially since the road to the falls from Kennedy has been closed by the council and the falls can only be accessed from Mount Garnett. But the drive is worth it! The waterfall plunges 90m to the pool below, before cascading a further 230m into the Blencoe Gorge which joins the Herbert River a few kilometres further on.

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The photo was taken from the Blencoe Falls lookout that can be reached following a track of a few kilometres from the camping area and then walking about 200 metres (See map).

Wedge-tailed Eagle

The Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila Audax), in short called Wedgie, is Australia’s largest bird of prey and one of the largest eagles in the world. It has long, fairly broad wings, fully feathered legs, and an wedge-shaped tail. It measures 0.85-1.05 metres in length and has a wingspan of up to 2.3 metres.

The Wedge-tailed Eagle is found throughout Australia. Wedge-tailed Eagles eat both live prey (like rabbits, lizards and the occasional lamb) and carrion. You often see them in groups feeding on roadkill.

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The Wedge-tailed Eagle on the photo was shot at a waterhole in Glen Annie Gorge in Ruby Gap Nature Park in the East MacDonnell Ranges NorthernTerritory, Australia

Old Peake Telegraph Station

The ruins of the Old Peake Telegraph Station are off the Oodnadatta Track in Outback South Australia. It is a rough drive, even for 4wd vehicles, but it is definitely worth it!

The Telegraph Station use to be a major centre on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line in the early 1900s, but is now as remote and deserted as can be. A small pocket of date palms and some white-washed ruined buildings are all that is left.

The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Adelaide (or rather Port Augusta) in South Australia. Completed in 1872 the Overland Telegraph Line allowed fast communication between Australia and England.

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The surroundings of the Old Peake Telegraph Station are very harsh and makes you wonder how people could survive …

Trilby Station

Trilby Station is located on the Darling River near Louth, south of Bourke, New South Wales.

It has always been a hard life trying to make a living of the land in this area, the more so in the last years with one of the the worst droughts ever experienced since white man came to Australia.

Trilby is still a working sheep station, but as an other source of income has opened its doors to travellers. It offers a range of accommodation, the best option (at least to us and by far) camping on the Darling River and watching the bird life.

If you are there at the right time you can pop in and see the School of the Air, operated from Broken Hill, life in action (if the kids haven’t grown too old by now and if Satellite Broadband hasn’t caught up with the whole thing).

There are interesting self-drive tours to do at Trilby and neighbouring Dunlop Stations. A lot of relics from the past can be found, such as abandoned homesteads, plant, cars and … the odd double-decker.

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The folks at Trilby call this the Old London Bus. It is supposed to have been the mobile residence of a sheep shearer that worked on the station some time ago, but it was left behind when its time had come. But … watch it … as was pointed out by specialists, it has never had a life in London. It is actually an old Sydney Bus, although it may also have driven the streets of Newcastle (NSW it is, not the UK).

Anyway, we hope it is happy now …

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Sydney’s famous landmarks (if not the most famous).

The bridge was opened in 1932 and, although nowadays there is a tunnel underneath the harbour as well, is still an essential artery feeding traffic in and out of Sydney with over 160.000 vehicles crossing each day.

You can climb the South Eastern pylon and the views from there are spectacular, see photo below.

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Corni Paroo Waterhole

Corni Paroo Water, on the Paroo River, is in Currawinya National Park near Hungerford in Outback Queensland just north of the border with New South Wales. It is one of our favourite camping spots.

The Paroo River is a tributary to the Darling River and the last free-flowing river system in the Murray-Darling Basin, although it only flows after heavy rain.

Currawinya National Park also features a two large lakes, Lake Wyara (saltwater) and Lake Numalla (freshwater). The last time we visited the lakes (June 2007) they were both low.

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Our first favourite …

… is the place where we live, the Blue Mountains. This favourite is also featured in the header of our blog.

We only live 3 km from the Blue Mountains National Park and the view from Govett’s Leap Lookout into the Grose Valley after rain never ceases to amaze us.