Australia 1999
About what I have seen in Australia. Mix of pictures from national park, but not only from there.
This pagediscribes our journey in September 1999. The goal and route of this
trip wasn't planned ahead and that is the trick of how to really
enjoy travelling. We visited the not very well known "Blackdown
Tabeland National Park" east of Rockhampton. This park was
spectacular. Most of the pictures below are from there."Eungella
Valley" in "Eungella National Park" was also unusual.
Bowen - the
city of mangos was where we turned back, considering the date and
age of our car. Unfortunately, on the way up I lost my camera (from
the roof of the car), so all you can see is what we photographed
before that.
"Blackdown Tableland National Park"
The national park appears after hudreds of flat
and boring kilometers. The other interesting thing is that all the
attractions are on a really small area. This big stone is standing
on just one meter square. The dry watter fall is fills up during the
rainy season.
The beauty of this place was found by aborigines
many thousands of years before we invented "national parks". These
paintings could mark aboriginal sacred place. Eucalyptus trees are
very common in Australia.
The tablelands are a few hundreds meter higher
than the surronding landscape. That makes a spectacular scene when
the waterfall sends water falling down off the tablelands (see left
pict.) The picture on the right is proof of difficulties with making
picture in such beatiful enviroment like this. I needed camera with
360' lens.
"Other pictures from Australia"
I would say that this picture characterises the
Australian lanscape.
I think this picture should be on every page
about Australia. For me it is proof that design should have a place
in every day life.
Aboriginal art applied on the back of Woodford
Folk Festival visitor.
This place is called Angourie and it is located
south of Byron Bay, NSW.
"STORY BRIDGE" in Brisbane city, over the Brisbane river.