Signs you’ve photographed your rig in front of

Ger08 · Senior Member

Signs you’ve photographed your rig in front of

Whenarewethere · Guru

Lambert Centre of Australia.

Red flag taking over Australia.jpg

Possum3 · Guru

Ensure when taking photo's in some rural towns there is sometimes graffiti evident beneath and behind the photo opportunity - It happened to us at the beautiful profiled steel signs coming into Marble Bar - some language that would make a sailor blush, unfortunately we never noticed until later so photos were unusable.

I have seen it elsewhere as well coming into some towns with high indigenous populations mainly.

-- Edited by Possum3 on Monday 26th of April 2021 10:35:36 PM

Ger08 · Senior Member

Whenarewethere wrote:
Lambert Centre of Australia.

Fantastic pic.

Ger08 · Senior Member

Possum3 wrote:
Ensure when taking photo's in some rural towns there is sometimes graffiti evident beneath and behind the photo opportunity - It happened to us at the beautiful profiled steel signs coming into Marble Bar - some language that would make a sailor blush, unfortunately we never noticed until later so photos were unusable.

I have seen it elsewhere as well coming into some towns with high indigenous populations mainly.

-- Edited by Possum3 on Monday 26th of April 2021 10:35:36 PM

I know what you mean, particularly with Magnet

Whenarewethere · Guru

I Photoshop out offensive stuff if needed.

Or try to photograph the car in a position to tell a different story!

Stretch60 · Senior Member

So how did the landy fare on the GCR.?

Bicyclecamper · Guru

Laverton to Alice Springs , is one of the very few routes that I haven't done on my bike, that I would love to do. On the Tanami, I carried 45 litres of water on the bike as well as my dog trailer, and was lucky that it rained half way thru the track. I had to use my Sawyer filter though as the water was very muddy. I also took a box of apples with me for the mules that I was sure were out there, and I was not disappointed. I had one follow me for a fair while, the outcome for him of which is another story. It was a good outcome, but too much to write about here.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Stretch60 wrote:
So how did the landy fare on the GCR.?

'Australia's longest shortcut'

It's basically a Ford with a Ford Ecoboost 2.0L petrol engine, with some Volvo bits.

Enough 2WD Fords & Holdens driven by locals along that road. I only saw one idiot who was absolutely flying. Probably didn't let his tyres down either..... Almost forgot, probably like him..... Towing a caravan!

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

On the Oodnadatta Track, maybe 25 years ago.

The sign has been stolen many times unfortunately.

F350 slide on.jpg

Cheers,

Peter

-- Edited by Peter_n_Margaret on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 07:25:05 PM

Whenarewethere · Guru

No car in front of the sign, but I'm sure others have seen the irony of the juxtaposition!

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Crossing the border from the NT back into SA on the Stuart Highway on our honeymoon in 1967.
It was "tradition" at that time to push the car across the border. I needed to take the pic of course. biggrin

Traffic was not a problem. smile

1967 Darwin 6 018.jpg

Cheers,

Peter

-- Edited by Peter_n_Margaret on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 07:33:32 PM

Craig1 · Guru

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

1974.

1974 Kombi trip 008.jpg

1992.

2006

Mt Barry 194E.jpg

Cheers,

Peter

-- Edited by Peter_n_Margaret on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 08:53:07 PM

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

2006

06w05 (47)c.jpg

Cheer,

Peter

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

2007

0703 (18).JPG

2008

0804 (15)c.jpg

2009

0905 (92).JPG

Cheers,

Peter

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

2014, France, free camping spot.
The sign says "Reserved for camping cars".

Cheers,

Peter

pghollis · Veteran Member

Not a sign as such, but since we were locked in Victoria we did some of the silo art trail...

-- Edited by pghollis on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 09:24:28 PM

-- Edited by pghollis on Tuesday 27th of April 2021 09:26:07 PM

Gaylehere · Guru

After looking through some of my photos I've come to the conclusion I take plenty of "signs" photos but not with our vehicle in them.

Peter n Margaret - the Ayres Rock Mount Olga sign brought back memories. I was there in either 1973 or 1974 - memory is failing me on the year at the moment and I will have to check my old photo albums.

Cheers.

Ger08 · Senior Member

Some great pics and memories there. Share some even if your rig isnt in it.

Derek Barnes · Senior Member

This sign at the entrance of Willow Springs in the Flinders Ranges is awesome! The 4WD tracks are also great with beautiful views over the ranges.

KJB · Guru

1981 1981 Darwin 001 (72).jpg

diggerop · Senior Member

Tropic of Capricorn in Namibia, Africa. Between Windhoek and Sossusvlei. The birds nests are made by Sociable Weavers, they can get so heavy the branch can break off.

Ger08 · Senior Member

Some outstanding and super interesting pics. Any pics of silo art?

Gaylehere · Guru

Three Moon near Monto, Qld. Taken last year.

-- Edited by Gaylehere on Thursday 29th of April 2021 07:15:15 AM

Tony LEE · Guru

Like Peter's, some encouragement to widen your horizons

You would think it wasn't necessary to tell the citizens of the greatest nation on earth that it isn't a good idea to set up a camp fire on a bitumen parking lot. All the burnt spots say otherwise

Chile is a very confusing place

Chile could be called "The land of signs" - and even when they can't think of a name for a bridge, the solution is simple - give it the name of "Bridge with no name".

But of course then it does have a name so is not a bridge with no name is it?

-- Edited by Tony LEE on Thursday 29th of April 2021 02:28:43 PM

-- Edited by Tony LEE on Thursday 29th of April 2021 02:42:31 PM