I revisited Iron Knob in the Middleback Range in late 2023 whilst on a road trip to the Eyre Peninsula. I swagged there overnight on a bit of grass beside a few straggly trees in a space designated as a … Read More
The historical industrial heartland of South Australia was the Upper Spence Gulf or the Iron Triangle as it was known in the mid-to late 20th century. The region was semi-arid and the existence of the industrial towns of Port Pirie, … Read More
The low key picture of Paradise below is from the archives. It is from the 1990s and it indicates the the content of photography is history. What photographs do is to bring the past into the present, confronting us with … Read More
Whilst going through my archives yesterday I came across some industrial images of the silos at Wallaroo on the York Peninsula in South Australia. I had forgotten all about this trip until I came across the images below. At the … Read More
An agricultural landscape with a tree and the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline
When going through my black and white archives from the 1980s I had come across some images of ruins in the eastern Mt Lofty Ranges. I just didn’t know where their location was. It wasn’t until I was on an … Read More
The roadtrip to Sedan and Cambrai involved crossing the Mt Lofty Ranges near Angaston or Palmer in order to visit these small townships on the western edge of the Murray plains. I remember stopping on the top of the eastern … Read More
There are some images in the archives relating to a road trip to the Tothill Range in the Mid-North of South Australia. They are centred around, or feature, the Morgan-Whyalla pipeline.
I recently come across more road trip photos in the archives from a road trip to Kapunda and Eudunda in the 1990s.
Old road trips in the mid-north of South Australia –eg., Sedan, Cambrai and the Marne River.