outback rover adventures: August 2023

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Looking up to the top of the Jump-Up from the path below.

A few new young kids pronk away from the walker who approaches.

Winton, the dinosaur capital of Australia.

Sunset boulders and eucalypts on the edge of Jump-Up country.

A reflection pool on a Jump-Up in western Queensland.

Sunset on a flat rocky jump-up in a Dark Sky Sanctuary.

A bronze moon in the golden glow of sunset in the Aussie Outback.

A new Lunar Crescent appears low on the horizon after sunset as the Moon passes between us and the Sun.

Long wavelengths of light make all the oranges, yellows and peaches of sunsets what they are. Spectacular.

The natural vegetaion on the Jump-Up rapidly regrows to fill the empty voids in the bare soil and rocks. Life takes hold and voila, landscaping done.

Another view of the Gondwana Stars Observatory.

A view of the Gondwana Stars Observatory at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History. Majestic.

Morning walks past speed signs and dinosaurs.