42 Mile Crossing again and Raukkan - December 2011

A promised overnight camping trip with Veronica, Stewart, Jacob and Emily.
The wind blew ceaselessly for all of the first day and night, just on the edge of sand-blast.

The beach campsite just north of 42 Mile Crossing.


 

The coming of evening.
 

Next morning - relative calm at last.

A visit to Raukkan (formerly Point McLeay Mission),
catching up with a significant part of the Wiley history -
Rev George Taplin (John's Great-great-grandfather)
and David Blackwell (John's Great-grandfather).

 

The church on the "David Unaipon"Australian $50 note. 

 

Nepabunna Mission 80 Years Celebration - November 2011

On the way in from Copley. 
A particularly pretty gap remembered from when we lived at Nepabunna in the mid 1960s.

The last creek crossing at the entry to Nepabunna.

 
Bush camp near Mount Rowe.

 
A family of emus was interested in us.

 
Fire lighting ceremony, conducted by some of our old students from the 1960s.

 
Launch of the Adnyamathanha flag.

 
Near Hookina on the way back home.

 
Evening caught us south of Blythe on the way home
giving wonderful golden light to the fields.

Robe - September 2011 (Beth)

 
Nora Creina

 
Flight

 
A "Coorong" full of water and bird life.

 

 
From the Narrung punt - between Lake Alexindrina and Lake Albert.

 
Point Malcolm - Australia's only inland lighthouse 
(maybe the only inland lighthouse in the Southern Hemisphere).

Robe - September 2011 (John)

Our breakfast spot at "Cricklewood Cottage"
overlooking coastal scrub and Lake Felmongery.

Nora Creina bay. 

 Approaching rain over "The Obelisk" at Robe.

Waves at West Beach, Robe.

The beach at "42 Mile Crossing" in the rain.

A little 4wd fun accessing some spots.