We store Bruce Van before G arrives, go to the camel cup (no photos) on the 13th and set off for Newhaven on Sunday with Bruce Ute's tray stacked high with camping gear. So much space!
Climb the home range to see the sun set on arrival. Next day to the gorge (which still has running water from the recent rains); following day to the lakes (where we find water birds - amazing!). Travel the northern route out on Wednesday, to bypass most of the water on the 'main' road.
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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 |
