tiabunna's photos with the keyword: remote

Welcome to Birdsville, one of Australia's more iconic remote townships with (as shown in the PiP) a population of about 115 (+/- 7,000) depending on whether an "event" (such as the Birdsville Races) is happening. Best viewed large. Taking the lead of the people sitting outside, I'll wish everyone a very Happy Bench Monday and a great week to come.

In my ipernity article "Australian Fires" I mentioned that climate change can even bring extreme rainfall events, particularly in the tropics. Such an event happened in the middle of drought in the far north west of Queensland in February 2019, just before our Europe trip. The huge amount of rain resulted in terrible losses of cattle, but eventually some of the water found its way down to Australia's desert centre. As we flew over, on our return in late March, I was amazed by this sight from high above. This image (with haze removed) shows the Simpson Desert sandhills with lakes of water - normally just dry salt pans! I am still shaking my head that we saw this, as it happens only every 40 or 50 years. A more detailed report was in the national news. My second image taken a few minutes later (clickable in the PiP) shows the Diamantina River and the Birdsville Track (a remote Australian road). Explored.

Taken just a few minutes after my "Desert Water" image, this shows (at right) the Birdsville Track (famous in Australia as a remote desert road) and the (foreground) Diamantina River - usually dry but here spreading in flood. This rare event (only every 40-50 years) resulted from a massive rainfall event far away in northwest Queensland almost two months earlier.

Inspired by energetic mountain climbers on this site, I decided to tackle the demanding climb to Mt Crozier in the Murray-Sunset National Park. The challenge will be obvious from the accompanying images of the route and view from the top! HFF and have a great weekend, everyone. Here's. a suitable musical link . Explored.

The demanding route up Mt Crozier. Height 109M, way above the surrounding country which is typically only about 45M. :-)

A wide angle view of the Murray-Sunset National Park, seen from the summit of Mt Crozier (109M). "Flat" is indeed the operative word - Mt Crozier is the highest point in the region.