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| Some of the thousands of beanies at the festival, modelled by Pat, some unknown blokes and a hatstand. You can tell which ones she liked by the smiles (and the nots). Pat bought the one at the bottom left. It's proved very useful during the cold evenings here in Alice. |
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| The parade down Todd Mall |
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| Some of the different events - water ski, bath tub run, yacht race, sand digging. |
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| More events, and the pirates who helped keep the competitors cool. |
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| Before and after on the greased pole. |
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| More events and teams. |
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| The final battle - before and during. Pirates vs Vikings vs Navy - can't remember who won. |
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| Perspectives of sunset from Mt Gillen |
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| Us and our nephew Mitch at Mt Gillen - how did Pete get the halo???? |
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| 'Patterns' - from photography course. |
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| In Todd Mall - from photography course. Whoever heard of a selfie with an SLR? |
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| Views of Simpsons Gap from the photography course. Colour contrast, framing, placement. |
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| Flowers on the Ilparpa claypans; views of Todd River. |
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| The family of chickens obtained by Bec - the fluffy stage and the not-quite-so-fluffy stage; girl drummers at the fete; the best photo I ever got of those pesky never-sit-still white-plumed honeyeaters. |
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| Walking up to the top of the canyon; our crew on the top; a view. |
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| Remains of the ripples caused by the ancient sea; the escarpment left by the rock sheering; an ancient cycad; ghost gum. |
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| The full height of the sheered rock; lower level rock formation; fields of flowers on the drive home. |
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| Orange chat (better than the photo we got at Newhaven), red-backed kingfisher (we haven't seen it in the wild), cinnamon quail-thrush (also haven't seen in the wild), thorny devil. |
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| Spinifex pigeons (one of Pat's favourites), dusky grasswren (haven't seen this one in the wild), wedgetail eagle eyeing his keeper, tawny frogmouth pretending as usual to be a piece of log. |
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| Olive Pink Gardens - view across to Mt Gillen, helicopter tree, western bowerbird showing his breeding purple patch, sculpture of an aboriginal hunter. |
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| Black kite in flight, brown falcon (love it's eyes), whistling kite, eastern barn owl (we've never seen this one in the wild either. |
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| The road or perhaps better described as the route - not much road for some of the way! |
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| Some of the scenery, including the ancient palms and cycads for which Palm Valley is famous. |
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| Birds and flowers - spinifex pigeon, western bowerbird, zebra finches, yellow daisies. |
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| The way in to Newhaven - 300km in 5 hours |
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| View from the home range, above the camping ground |
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| Around our camp site |
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| 'The Gorge' |
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| Along 'The Lakes' drive |
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| Birds of Newhaven - Pallid cuckoo, female red-capped robin, grey-headed honeyeater, brown falcon, budgerigar |
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| More birds of Newhaven - female hooded robin, inland and yellow-rumped (we think) thornbills, another brown falcon |
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| Yet more birds - orange chat, another hooded robin, white-necked heron, red-kneed dotterel |
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| Even more birds! Crimson chat, zebra finches (male and female), grey teal, another grey-headed honeyeater, masked woodswallows in flight |
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| Flowers of Newhaven - the red is holly grevillea, the purple is one of several bush tomato varieties (purple = poison, so don't eat the fruit!), others we don't know |
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| More flowers - one of many kinds of samphire, mulga, a kind of hakea, purple is a mystery |
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| Two on the left are eremophila, bottom left is another samphire, don't know the other |
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| Don't know any of these! |
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| Insects - how many different kinds of grasshopper can there be? We didn't even look hard for these four. |
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| Scenery on the way out - the trees at the top and with the camels are desert oaks - they grow like feather dusters for around 13 years until their tap root reaches the water table, then branch out. |
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| The way out |
