09-11-2010, 02:00 PM
Had a trip up to the Pilbara recently. Here are some pics:
Camp:
Terrain:
Snappy Gum:
Bush tomato (good tucker):
Spinifex:
Mulga tree and spinifex:
All the rock is pure iron ore:
Permanent waterhole in cliff/gorge:
Morethia ruficaudata (redtail skink):
Ctenotis saxitallis:
Walk out there without water and you die:
Gecko:
Permanent spring and waterhole in gorge:
Litoria rubella (desert tree frog):
Baby Olive Python:
Figs at permanent spring (good tucker):
Gorge with permanent spring from above:
Pseudomys hermansbergensis (sandy inland mouse):
Another gecko:
Sturt's desert pea:
Cave shelter:
Vespadelus bat:
Taphozous georginus:
As I said the rocks are almost pure iron (Chinese pay lots for our iron ore):
Some things that are not so good in your sleeping bag....
Mygalomorph spider:
Scorpion:
Ningaui (a predatory marsupial):
Delma pax (legless lizard):
Another skink with an attitude:
Uperoleia russelli (burrowing frog):
Camp:
Terrain:
Snappy Gum:
Bush tomato (good tucker):
Spinifex:
Mulga tree and spinifex:
All the rock is pure iron ore:
Permanent waterhole in cliff/gorge:
Morethia ruficaudata (redtail skink):
Ctenotis saxitallis:
Walk out there without water and you die:
Gecko:
Permanent spring and waterhole in gorge:
Litoria rubella (desert tree frog):
Baby Olive Python:
Figs at permanent spring (good tucker):
Gorge with permanent spring from above:
Pseudomys hermansbergensis (sandy inland mouse):
Another gecko:
Sturt's desert pea:
Cave shelter:
Vespadelus bat:
Taphozous georginus:
As I said the rocks are almost pure iron (Chinese pay lots for our iron ore):
Some things that are not so good in your sleeping bag....
Mygalomorph spider:
Scorpion:
Ningaui (a predatory marsupial):
Delma pax (legless lizard):
Another skink with an attitude:
Uperoleia russelli (burrowing frog):
Marto