Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Dec 2, 2009, 10:27 pm
Well, the rebuild of the ATV trailer is coming along nicely. Here’s the trailer with a practice load. The welding is a bit rough and the design isn’t waterproof or dust proof, but the new ...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 24, 2009, 10:49 pm
With another outback trip coming up in April 2010, only four and a half months away, it’s time for a partial re-build of the trailer. This time there will be two of us, both with our gear in the...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 21, 2009, 11:50 pm
Well, my dad died the other day after 87 years of life. Hard Start To Life Dad had a pretty hard start to life. His mother was walking to the hospital in the heavy industry section of Melbourne but co...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 18, 2009, 4:13 am
Well, this is a little greeting video from Granddad to my twin grandsons. Hello Zak and Brock! Zak and Brock live on the other side of the country, 4000 kilometres away, so we don’t get to meet...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 16, 2009, 3:14 am
Lesley and I stayed at Yackandandah in north east Victoria for just the one night. It was at Yackandandah that we got the news of my dad’s passing so packed up and headed home in a hurry to prep...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 3, 2009, 4:30 pm
Two nights spent at River Bend Caravan Park, near Echuca and Moama in north east Victoria, practically on the border with New South Wales. Our camp is on the Goulbourne River and the Murray River is o...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 3, 2009, 4:17 pm
Well, we didn’t expect to be twenty kilometres out of town, half of the distance being over a dirt road, the Echuca Nathalia Road. It’s Melbourne Cup weekend. That is, it’s a long we...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 3, 2009, 3:48 pm
We hadn’t long set up camp at River Bend Caravan Park, about twenty kilometres out of Echuca, when I could see what a love filled place it is and I couldn’t help but admire Alan who so ope...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Nov 3, 2009, 6:39 am
Auntie Phyllis was my dad’s sister, two and a half years his senior. She had a good innings, making 90 not long before her death the other day. I have some idea of Auntie Phyllis’ early li...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Sep 19, 2009, 4:42 am
Went on a photography trip to Bermagui today with Lesley and a few other photographer friends. Fish and chips from Saltwater fish and chip shop, near the Bermagui wharf, eaten in the sunshine which to...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Jul 21, 2009, 7:24 pm
Streaky Bay Discovered and named by Matthew Flinders, Streaky Bay figured as a lifesaver to two of Australias great inland explorers. In 1840, Edward John Eyre and his party found a permanent waterhol...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Jul 21, 2009, 7:21 pm
Pamamaroo Lake Sunrise The sun rose over Pamamaroo Lake, part of the Menindee Lakes, as I guess it does every morning. The air was clear and still, the stars having given way to the brilliance of a co...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Jul 21, 2009, 7:17 pm
Menindee Lake Dry as a bone since 2002, about seven years, Menindee Lake was rather a disappointment but not an absolute loss from a photographer’s view point. The lake looks to be about ten kil...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Jul 21, 2009, 7:12 pm
Late afternoon at Pamamaroo Lake put the sun low in the western sky with a great light on the dead trees, river redgums, of the dry lake bed. The outer limits of the lake were once populated by thrivi...
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Laurie M. posted an article on Wilderness Travel: Compulsive Photographer, Camper, ATV - Jul 21, 2009, 7:07 pm
Wilcannia Having enquired of a fellow traveler, we found Wilcannia to be as said: very few white fellas in the main street and a significant area of the town boarded up, the glass being smashed. Bread...
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