SELECTED PHOTOS FROM

VEHICLE TRAVEL

WESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES

Flinders Ranges

WESTERN QUEENSLAND &

AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2009

Laurie McLean & Lawrie O’Connor with Murray, Ian, Roger, & Stephen Porteous

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Catalina at old Lake Boga war time flying boat base Lake Mungo woolshed

View to the east at Lake Mungo's Walls of China lunette. Outside Silverton hotel.

Remains of tramway infrastructure at Silverton NSW. Broken Hill railway station and business district.

Lawrie O'Connor as the little man at Broken Earth complex. Locomotive stopped at Quorn station. 2

Inside a former commissioners' carriage on the wedding train. NSU powered rail motor at Quorn.

Camp site at Wilpena Pound resort caravan park. Bunyeroo Valley near Wilpena Pound.

Starting on the track at Maree. An hour along the Birdsville track.

Mungerannie hotel between Maree and Birdsville. At the Queensland/South Australia border. 3

Birdsville hotel from the bakery. At the Queensland/Northern Territory border.

View over from ANZAC hill. Looking towards Mount Gillen from ANZAC hill.

Track junction. Old Andado station.

Kitchen at Old Andado station. Stock yards at Dalhousie ruins.

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Looking west from the stock yards at Dalhousie ruins. Roger Porteous’s Jackeroo coming off dune E of Purni Bore.

At Wonga Junction 29 km east of Purni bore. Jackeroo coming off a dune east of Wonga Junction.

Looking SW off dune crossing east of Lindsay Junction Marker post at Poeppels corner.

L-R: Roger, Ian, Lawrie, Stephen and Murray at Poeppels. L-R: Ian Lawrie and Laurie at Poeppels corner.

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At junction of the French Line and K1 Line east of Poeppels. Coming off top of Big Red sand hill 40km W of Birdsville.

On the eastern side of Big Red; looking west Birdsville hotel from Mobil service station in Adelaide St.

As it looked in 1968, photo by NatMapper Eddy Burke. Royal hotel remains, Birdsville.

Old wagon at Maree hotel. Hergott Springs at Maree.

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Hergott Springs at Maree. Camp site north of Mungerannie.

The recently built Birdsville bakery. Sign post near Carcory ruins.

Will Hutchison monument near Glengyle homestead. Ten year old Joseph Dunne's grave north of Bedourie.

Old Andado station. Old Andado station. 7

Old 1888 meat works later wool scour outside Charleville. Breville washing machine etc at Morven museum.

Morven museum site. Heading towards Steeles Gap in the Rodinga Range.

Old Birdsville mail truck in front of hotel at Maree. 201m long Cheviot railway tunnel between Yea and Molesworth Victoria; opened 1889 and closed 1978.

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