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Desert Dweller


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Our first camp was at Kiata campground in the Little Desert National Park.

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Lots of Emus around.

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A rare Malleefowl wandered through our camp.

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Southern Scrub-robin, always hard to get a photo of.

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Brown Treecreeper.

We then moved on to Broken Bucket Tank in the Big Desert.

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Broken Bucket Bore windmill.

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Red-capped Robins were around our camp.

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Inland Thornbill.

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Golden Whistler.

We then moved on to The Wattles campground at Lake Hindmarsh (dry).

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Splendid Fairy-wren, female.

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Silvereye.

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Mallee Ringneck Parrot.

Our next camp was at Yaapeet Beach, Lake Albacutya (dry).

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Un-enhanced sunset view over the lakebed from under our awning.

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Owlet Nightjar, they are nocturnal but sometimes sunbake at the entrance to their hole in daylight.

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Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater.

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Grey Butcherbird.

 

Thanks for viewing.

Cheers Keith & Judy.

 



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Cheers guys and thank you very much for identifying them as well. Love birds and am trying to learn a bit about them so this helps. Dave

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Great photos, thanks for sharing and naming them.

Lynda



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Love your photos as always. Thank you. Cheers.

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Great pics again DD. thumbsup.gif

Aussie Paul. smile



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Terrific photograthy. We love camping in the Mallee . Bird life is excellent and plenty of nice quite spots to camp away from the madding crowds. Rod.

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We will be going up through there on our way across to WA in early August. We were going to make Lake leSalles at Hopetoun the first night camp but your photos are making me want to go back to Lake Albacutya. Rod.

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Granty wrote:

We will be going up through there on our way across to WA in early August. We were going to make Lake leSalles at Hopetoun the first night camp but your photos are making me want to go back to Lake Albacutya. Rod.

Free camping around the lake in Hopetoun has become too well known.

If you're not there by 11am you've got no chance.

It's exactly the kind of place we stay away from.

In the past it was great but in recent years it's packed every day.

They were overflowing into the caravan park a few weeks back.

The painted silo trail shenanigans has also made things worse.

 



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