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Looking west from same spot at sunset.
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Gawler Ranges SA, Sturts Desert Pea cross-eye free view stereo
Windscreen view Googs Track SA looking north
Rhyolite pipes Mt Ive station SA
Moonbeams Rest. On track to Nuccaleena mine ruins Blinman Area Flinders Ranges
Nuccaleena Mine Ruins
old tracking dish installation Oodnadatta Track
Overland Telegraph Station ruins at Peake Station Oodnadatta track
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Meanwhile, earlier this week in the mountains near Canberra....
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Philip & Sandra Box
Hard Luck said:
Unlimited time, that's a tough one. Most of us leave it until we're old and buggered before we set off and by then that UNLIMITED TIME thing comes into play. Time seems to be very limited when you get near the pointy end. My brother and I started when we were old enough to drive and we travelled far and wide within Australia as soon as Merv was out of his apprenticeship. It wasn't too early because before long life gets in the way and cramps your style.
Merv even started buying his first house while we worked and travelled. We didn't separate our money those times so we most likely should have bought two. As soon as a girlfriend or wife comes along then there are different priorities and expenses. Of course kids blow that out even more and as time goes by travel gets more difficult until we're old and those expenses are lessened again but before long the old age problems come into play.
Our deteriorating health is the most important one and something we have little control over. The other is that to travel in your later years it's much more difficult to work to supplement the meagre income most of us are likely to end up with. In our case they bumped up the aged pension eligibility so that Sandra is still not there. Centerlink knocked me back because we ended our business in 2014 at the beginning of the recession and there were a lot of outstanding accounts, for services and products we supplied, that were never paid. I pumped a lot of our own money into the business over those later years.
Debts that my defunct business now and forever will owe me are classed as assets by Centerlink therefore I have too many assets to be eligible for the aged pension. I'm 67 next month and I get nothing and that makes plenty of free time and very little money. Both retired now, Merv and I just returned from prospecting, he's trying to put together enough for a boat and I'm aiming to update our 4WD motorhome.
Don't leave it too late if you want to make your way around this beautiful country. It's big and you'll never see it all.....
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Smeaton and surrounds
Moneybox said:
Nah..I'm just too lazy mate. It's a dream that I'll keep dreaming.
Just waiting for you to post up pics of your favourite spots MB
Some coordinates would be nice :lol:
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Toorongo and Amphitheatre falls near Noojee Vic.
Was going to camp the night. It was winter. Campsite was busier than Flinders St on a Friday night so I took of back home.
Was going to camp the night. It was winter. Campsite was busier than Flinders St on a Friday night so I took of back home.
Bit of alluvial gold NE of Noojee
And Trout
And Trout
fwdoz said:
It is a beautiful area fwdoz. That was a couple off years ago now and hadn't been out that way for over 30 years. I just wanted to escape into the bush for a while but it was too late in the arvo to move any further east at that time.
The old maps hey...how we used to navigate.
Hard Luck said:
When I first moved here, I was up there a couple of times a month exploring about. Not been that way for a few years now, but might be time to rectify that once restrictions lift
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They do look similar don't they here's one from the front, can just see chimney at top left
They do look similar don't they here's one from the front, can just see chimney at top left
Crossing Fogarty's claypan.
I kept to the speed limit. Promise.
I kept to the speed limit. Promise.
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