I Miss Oz

[strick]

Man I would love to get lost out there for about a month... Thanks for posting these photos

strick

[fredmason]

Trent, my friend (mate) Ray Navara lives in Bodalla NSW...if you see him tell him the Ornery Bastard from California said hello. More to the point, love the pictures! Ray told me stories about standing still and watching the leeches coming for him...not my kind of country.

hers are a couple pics from the Hillend or Sofala area... 

[fredmason]

speaking of Australia's national mascot...this is how I dealt with it

and the Huntsman...a giant version of the common jumping spider here in the states

[DDancer]

Those green nets are a pain.  They catch the light and fog out your vision badly and if your walking back to camp in the avro they are blinding.  Black nets are the better bet but can be a bit more difficult to find.  However a net is essential to sanity :)

Just like the deserts here in america.. and well anyplace else you camp... shake out your boots if left out doors and well... check your seat in the morning.  My partner seemed to attract alot of friends.  Even had a red back buddying up with him in his bag one morning *no picks of that but you could hear it*. :)  Hahh!

[fredmason]

just a few more memories....

John and Jenny Fisher in the Northern territory; shorts were Johns usual garb each day.

a bilabong near our camp...I always wondered if the saltys had moved in there...

A 4-5 foot goanna that came to say goodbye at my motel room door in Darwin...I had a very large green frog in my shower in the same room.

[Trent King]

On 27/02/2016 at 0:32 AM, fredmason said:

Trent, my friend (mate) Ray Navara lives in Bodalla NSW...if you see him tell him the Ornery Bastard from California said hello. More to the point, love the pictures! Ray told me stories about standing still and watching the leeches coming for him...not my kind of country.

hers are a couple pics from the Hillend or Sofala area... 

I dont know your mate at Bodalla, but do know the area well.  I released a series of prospecting maps for around there that took several months of field work.  Bloody great fishing there too as well as nice gold!

[DDancer]

Came across Stinky, or Stumpy as some say the shingle back :)  Another memory.  I've seen them in Victoria and WA.

[fredmason]

I don't want to wear out my welcome...a couple of pictures of the Olgas which are a few miles from Ayres Rock or Uluru...fantastic sedimentary formations..

the third pic is Uluru from the Ayres Rock Campground...

fred 

[vanursepaul]

Hey Fred. ...

Sounds like you are a goner for AU.....

SOON..... 

[DDancer]

Wear out your Welcome?? Ehh.  Gotta take a trip down the middle.... Uluru is on the bucket list of big rocks in hard to reach places I've yet to go.