Oodnadatta
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The 750km Oodnadatta Tack in outback South Australia is dotted with history from the days of the Old Ghan Railway. / According to the boy’s at the William Creek Hotel these poles enabled the personell of the Old Ghan Railway to communicate up and down the line.
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A ribbon of trees follow the flow of North Creek which only flows when it seasonally rains, followed by flash floods that hit the outback in these seasonal conditions. / The foreground bridge is part of the historic Old Ghan Railway. / In the background the Oodnadatta Track carves through vast wide red gibber plains. / Gibber is aboriginal word…..means rock of throwing size
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Iconic outback track the Oodnadatta Track follows the route of the Old Ghan Railway with many historic railway relics to be seen and explored along it’s 750km lenghth. Marree is where both the Birdsville Track and Oodnadatta Track start not far over these hills.
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Ruins of the Old Ghan Railway in outback South Australia. / By driving the Oodnadatta Track which closely followed the path of the old railway,you can find a view a fast amounts of ruins over the 750km of the Oodnadatta Track.
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Outback people have a cool sense of humour. The Oodnadatta Track is 750km of remote travel and seeing seeing this umberalla positioned at the turn off to a station brings a smile to you face.
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The famous Pink Road House displays it’s sign at Oodnadatta in Outback South Australia. / Located on the Oodnadatta Track between Marree and Marla it is a welcome sight on the famous 750km dirt track. / Facilities are pretty rugged, outback style, but food fuel and vehicle repairs are readily availble to a weary traveller.
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The Oodnadatta track is dirt track of around 750km in length in Outback South Australia / In this shot, the track has been recently graded so was in top condition. / What’s interesting about this wilderrness track is with the thousands of square miles of space they have to go and put ninety degree corners in at the most unexpected places, can get very exciting at times, and a situation that is responsible for many outback 4wd’s rolling over.
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A freshly graded track makes for a smooth run down the dirt 750km Oodnadatta Track. / With countless floodway’s with rocks to rip up your sump, the Oodnadatta Track is still best driven in a high clearance vehicle
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Sunrise hits an elevator and water tower along the abandoned Old Ghan railroad just off South Australia’s Oodnadatta Track. We’d spent the night in what had once been the station-master’s house on the recommendation of being able to get a fabulous star-scape panorama. Curdimurka is effectively surrounded by a 360-degree flat horizon, which gives a fabulous sense of openness and scale. Unfortunately, just before sunset the clouds rolled in, leaving us with no stars to shoot, but we got up before the dawn to make the most of the sunrise. Although there was some cloud around, the rising sun painted the face of the elevator in warm reds, and against the level horizon and combined with the cloud-streaked sky, the impact was jaw-dropping- and made for a decent shot, too… September 2006.
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A little road-trip across South Australia took my brother Ash and I up into the outback past Flinders country and onto the Oodnadatta Track. My bro is definitely into his macro decay and abstract shots with stacks of depth-of-field, while I tend to go more for big landscapes, but in this instance the starkness of the abandoned brickwork against the blue sky made for a really dramatic capture. I’d bought my first DSLR just 3 days before this shot was taken, so my Canon 350D/Rebel XT was brand new, and I didn’t even have a polarizer filter fitted for this shot (oh how I wish I did!)- but nonetheless the contrast in the sky was captured beautifully, and makes as significant a contribution to this shot as does the abandoned house itself. September 2006.
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A bit of scenery along South Australia’s Oodnadatta Track. We spent a few days looping through the backcountry in central SA, taking photos and generally enjoying the journey. For me it was partly a test-drive of my [then] new Canon 350D/Rebel XT, and falling in love with shooting with an SLR once more. It was the skyscapes that made the landscape shots special as much as anything else- catching the contrast and depth in the clouds and working them in to the landscape features let me take some nice shots which captured some of the grandeur and scale of this immense and spectacular place. September 2006.
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Gibber is aboriginal for… stone of throwing size
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One of the many steel bridges that carried the Old Ghan
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Voted in the top 10 Outback Australia group challenge October 2008 The Oodnadatta Track is the name given to the stretch of dirt road from Marree through to Oodnadatta and crosses the Tirari Desert. It follows a major Aboriginal trade route. It is also the original track taken by the explorer Stuart, the Overland Telegraph Line and the Old Ghan Railway line. Following the Oodnadatta Track is a journey back to the days of early European exploration and settlement. The most obvious historical relics are the last remaining sleepers and ruins of the original Ghan railway that run alongside the track from Maree to William Creek.
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Aerial View of Oodnadatta Track, outback South Australia Part of the www.roadlesstravelled.com.au series
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Aerial view of a dirt road in outback South Australia Part of the www.roadlesstravelled.com.au series
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‘Kurdimurka’ (local Aboriginal Australian folklore) – a spiritual snake which coils itself around Lake Eyre, South Australia. The local Aborigines believe that entering Lake Eyre will disturb the snake and lead to unfortunate consequences. Curdimurka, South Australia is situated along the Old Ghan Track near Lake Eyre. Long ago abandoned, these days it is the site of the annual Curdimurka Ball. /
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In times gone Beresford, South Australia was a train station on the Old Ghan Line, a telegraph station and cattle station.
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Strangways Ruins, Oodnadatta Track – South Australia /
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OODNADATTA TRACK SERIES Dalhousie I Dalhousie II Gallahs and Corellas Strangways Beresford
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OODNADATTA TRACK SERIES Eringa Dalhousie Beresford Strangways
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Australian Bronco Branding Championships 2009 – Marla, South Australia
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Sunrise Over Algebuckina Bridge Algebuckina Bridge is about 55kms south of Oodnadatta on the Oodnadatta Track – South Australia. / It’s a really beaut bridge as you can see. At 578mtrs it’s a pretty long bridge too. The longest in South Australia. It’s a good thing that it is a long bridge because it crosses the widest and longest river – the Neales River – on the Oodnadatta Track, not, mind you, that the Neales River often has a lot of water in it. / Algebuckina Bridge was opened in 1892 as part of the Old Ghan Railway. It wasn’t, as legend has it, originally designed for the Murray River and when found to be too short, built where it now stands instead. It was purpose designed and built for this very spot. / What isn’t an Outback myth though is the story of the wrecked car that is still there just to the side of the old track on the southern end of the bridge. It seems that the the car was stopped by a flooding Neales River. With no hope of making a crossing, the enterprising occupants of the vehicle reckoned, not unreasonably, that they could drive over the rail bridge. Bit bumpy maybe, but there is a pub at Oodnadatta and it’d be a long wait for the river to go down and the mud to dry, so, why not give it a go? / Problem was though, they forgot to check the train time table ….. / There’s a famous waterhole just the other side of the Oodnadatta Track near the Algebuckina Bridge. It’s called, you won’t be surprised to learn, the Algebuckina Waterhole. / Algebuckina Waterhole is good place to camp apparently. Not that we’d know. We decided to camp right up close to the bridge – in fact, if you look very hard you can see out campsite in this image – and we never got around to checking out the waterhole. We did get to check out swarms of very unpleasant insects, a short but wild storm, complete with thunder lightning and rain, wind, and a not very well cooked meal of curried gritty chicken and unpleasant insects. We also had to quickly put out our fire – see wind above – using dirt and sand – see gritty chicken and insect curry above. / But we did get to see the Algebuckina Bridge – the longest bridge in South Australia – in the light of a not too foul sunrise. Not bad eh? / - / © Copyright 2009 – Jeff Catford The Algebuckina Bridge is on the Register of the National Estate and the State Heritage Register of South Austrlia / / Sunrise Over Algebuckina Bridge was featured in: / Australian Travel Photography and Writing – July 2009 / Take Me Higher (Dynamic Range) – August 2009 / _ / Kit: / Nikon D200 – Sigma 10~20mm F3.5 EX DC HSM / Manfroto tripod / Nikon MC-36 Remote / Exposure: / 10mm / 1/125 x f16 and f 14 – yes I know.. wrong way to do it.. :-) / Post Processing: / Photomatix – PSE – Noiseworks and the usual faffing about Best viewed LARGE. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for your comments.
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