It doesn't look like that good a shot, I know, but you try tracking a fast-running brown kite bolting across the ground with a 300mm lens on manual focus, while looking between the shoulders of people sitting in front of you...


This is a brown hawk. While they usually hover and circle overhead looking for prey, they'll also run down prey like lizards. They actually have very long legs, and they run...

Okay, a couple more photos.

One thing about the desert is, you think it's empty. You pull your car over, look out, see not a damned thing moving, so you think there's nothing out there.

We went out on a tour of Curtin Springs station - over 1 million hectares that runs up to 4,500 head of cattle, down to 1.500 at the moment, and our base for our explorations of Uluru and Kata Tjuta. We were probably the first people to head out onto those particular dunes in days,...

I've been off in the Northern Territory for a few days: we went to Alice Springs, Curtin Springs cattle station, Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Pretty much every item of clothing I took with me has red dust in it.

These two are from the first day, driving between Alice Springs and Curtin Springs. Roadside lookout towards Mount Conner in one direction, and red dust dune in the other.



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