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i drove north from adelaide several hours and arrived in the outback region of Flinders Ranges national park. as with most places, the farther you get from the big city the nicer people are. not that folks in sydney or adelaide were unfriendly.
my first emu. big friggin birds. this was a lone male.
bark study.
seemed everything was in bloom. i tried to shoot the plant as a whole then a close-up of the flower.
bloom
a home built in the mid 1800s in wilpena pound.
creeping lichen.
more ants.
cool spider. this guys about the size of my thumb.
new and old.
then i came across a herd of emus. one large male and a harem of females.
shingle-back lizard. these guys were really neat. evidently mate for life. give birth to live offspring. very slow. blue tongues! about 15" long.
shingle-back.
remnants of a sheep herders hut.
red kangaroo.
a roo and a roo warning sign.
i came close on a number of occasions, this not being one of them, to hitting either a kangaroo, a wallaby, and one time, a koala. i tried really hard to not drive at dusk, daybreak, and never at night. (although i did violate these rules on a number of occasions, same occasions when i nearly ran over things...)