Spring has definitely arrived early this year in Alice Springs. Everywhere you look, native shrubs are in flower, the birds are building nests and the hills still have a greenish tinge after consistent rainfall all this year. It is gorgeous. We are even getting a few days now above 20 degrees, although the nights remain cool. Who would be anywhere else?!
Here are some (mostly) recent photos. Where appropriate I’ve added them to other galleries on the site. Hope you enjoy them!
Is it possible to sum up the Kimberley in a few photographs? Of course not. Such a vast, untamed, ancient, uncompromising and varied landscape would take a lifetime to even begin to comprehend. But what the hell, here a a few photos we took in various places around the Kimberley, which we hope will give you a glimpse of the moods of this magnificent region. The Kimberley holds a magic all of its own.
Most of us would be hard-pressed to locate the vast Pilbara region on a map of Australia. We might associate the Pilbara with iron ore mining and offshore gas rigs, but know little more about it. Nirbeeja and I certainly knew very little about the region before we visited. The first time we looked at a map of the region, there seemed to be a few small settlements with vast distances between them, and huge areas of ‘nothing’ on the map.
The reality of the Pilbara is, of course, very different. It is a beautiful region, perhaps with the greatest range of colours of any we have seen in Australia. The deep red of the rocks and earth contrasted with the deep blue of the sky and the pale spinifex grass.
We have been blessed to visit many wonderful places during our travels around Australia; some beautiful, some wild and some spectacular. And some all three.
Here is a selection of our photographs.
Okay, we admit it, we’ve seen more sunsets than sunrises. Enough said, the photos speak for themselves.