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Сант | Orkhon River Camp 1/2

Selenge Amig

Mongolia | Монгол

23rd to 24th July 2023

NOMAD Science 2023 (Bioarchaeology)

Сант is pronounced as Sant.

We stayed here on our way to the Darkhad (3rd July) as well as on the return trip back (24th July).

The Orkhon was in flood on the return as a low pressure system had pushed down from Siberia and caused the waterways to flood quit a lot. Our original campground was completely underwater so we stayed on the high bank on the opposite side that night.

We had finished all of our alcohol on the last night so sharing that bottle of wine I brought in Мөрөн that day around camp made for some fun and excitement.

Storms were on the horizon that night with lightning flashing over the hills but that is as close to us as it got, the sky was mostly clear in the morning of our last driving day to Ulaanbaatar.

#camping #road trip #photography #landscape #nature #travel #bush camping #mongolia #camping Mongolia #Mongolia Camping

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Rawnsley Park Station

Flinders Ranges

South Australia

2022

19th to the 21st of September

Storms we’re passing over the dry Lake Torrens National Park lake bed and heading directly towards us while we were hiking the Arkaroo Rock trail up to the base of Wilpena Pound. The thunder from that location was eerie so we hiked back just in time for the rains to come down.

The thunder was extremely loud by the time we made it to camp and the lightning was close and striking some of the peaks of Wilpena Pound and in front of the range. The flash flooding started soon after and many other campers had to pack up and move as the water was rising pretty fast, we got lucky and stayed.

The day after had flood debris and damage visible on the drive back to Hawker, trees on the roads and new erosion beside the paved highway. Wilpena Pound was covered in low clouds on the drive out which looked really nice.

#camping #road trip #photography #landscape #nature #travel #australia #south australia #bush camping #flinders ranges #Wilpena Pound #Adelaide

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The Matt Creek Campground - Holowiliena South Station

Southern Flinders Ranges

South Australia

2022

June 11th to 13th

Long days caving in the Southern Flinders Ranges, the mornings were freezing temperatures sitting at around 1 to 0°C overnight, we were getting frost some mornings and heavy fog on others.

We got the fire going as fast as possible in the mornings as well as at night. Pro tip: don’t eat a very hot pepper and then rub your eyes, it does not feel good at all for 20 minutes, I couldn’t open my eyes for 15 of those. The beer was great after that and needed.

#camping #road trip #photography #landscape #nature #travel #australia #south australia #bush camping #flinders ranges #desert camping #desert

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So I was testing my new Mont Moondance tent out as I’m taking this to Mongolia and my cat decided she actually likes tents and decided to check it out.

Yes she is tiny and she’s an asshole sometimes but she’s just too dam adorable to be in any trouble aha.

#camping #road trip #photography #travel #australia #bush camping #.personal #adventure #mountains #tent #camping tent

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I will be camping throughout the northern section of Mongolia in July this year, this is for an Archaeological field school.

We will be close enough to the Siberian border of Russia that we all need border crossing passes regardless of if we are actually crossing over that line.

#camping #road trip #Mongolia

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Coober Pedy, Riba's Underground Camping . 1/2

The Outback

South Australia

2022

Friday 22nd July & Tuesday 12th July

Everything echoes down there and it’s incredibly dusty so expect dust on literally everything and anything.

This place is still the strangest campground I have ever stayed at so far.

#camping #road trip #landscape #nature #photography #adventure #scenery #underground #underground camping #Coober Pedy #Australia #south australia

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Pwerte Marnte Marnte

Red Center, Simpson Desert

Northern Territory

20th to the 22nd July 2022

Site is 25 to 30 million years old (undated currently ± a few million years), possibly an old river flood deposit above a slow deep water billabong or flood plain environment. Some remnants of green clay in other areas at the bone bed level. Bone is crushed beyond recognition but some crocodile Baru teeth are visible. More birds and crocodiles are visible and very few mammals which is more backwards for a site like this. The above formation is comprised of heavily mineralized sandstone and hematite as well as quartz veins, its capping the mesa near camp.

The campsite is in a completely restricted area near the main train line that runs from Darwin to Alice Springs to Adelaide, sometimes the Ghan runs down this line on the way to Darwin along with other freight trains.

The Ghan passed our site while we were working at 12:15, the second train we have seen on the tracks but two have passed overnight so far, I’m guessing that was a freight train as the Ghan comes every two days and is a luxury passenger train. (July 21st 2022). Three trains passed by us overnight and in the early hours of the morning while two passed in daylight (22nd July 2022).

Two of the others took a bite out of a random melon on the way to the camp on the side of the road, and no it’s not recommended, we all know that wouldn’t have been good.

We visited Rainbow Valley, I wasn’t expecting to be able to stop for it, we didn’t have time to go right up to it but we got to a few of the lookouts. There is a large clay pan in front of it and two medium sized camp grounds (definitely a future camping spot).

#camping #road trip #landscape #nature #photography #travel #australia #landscapephotography #south australia #bush camping #northern territory #desert camping #paleontology

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Alcoota Scientific Reserve

Red Center

Northern Territory, Australia

14th July to the 20th of July 2022

The Basin between an un-named range and the Harts Range, a possible paleo-river channel with an extensive megafauna fossil site from 8 million years ago.

Temperatures dropped to 0 overnight, felt like -5 some mornings, by mid afternoon temperatures had reached around 28 Celsius.

We always had the fires going in the mornings and afternoons for tea and to cook over each night.

We went up “Cow Pat Hill” on multiple occasions to view the sunset and sunrise, brought our drinks up there as well one night.

Spent a lot of nights star gazing as there was virtually no light pollution this far out in the Northern Territory, I had never seen the Milky Way that bright before even in the Flinders Ranges but that was mainly due to the moon.

Days stayed clear of cloud cover and we were working in the pits from 8 to 5 roughly most days, I ended up getting a lot of amazing fossils out from this site. Everything collected here has gone with the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory for research.

#camping #road trip #landscape #nature #photography #travel #australia #landscapephotography #bush camping #paleontology #northern territory #mountains #Grassland #hiking #hills #group camping #geology #geological

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Coober Pedy - Riba’s Underground Camping

Outback SA

South Australia

2022

July 12th to 13th & July 22nd to 23rd

The Backrooms if it was Coober Pedy. It’s a strange place this one, especially to go camping at, I guess welcome to South Australia.

#camping #road trip #landscape #nature #photography #travel #australia #south australia #landscapephotography #travel photography #nature photography #abandoned mines #Coober Pedy #the backrooms #backrooms

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Well it’s incredibly specific song playlist time, the road trip one it is. The playlist is only 6 and a half hours long and won’t cover the entire drive to half way or out of South Australia. It takes 13 hours to leave the state from just South of Adelaide and I am going 9 hours to Coober Pedy tonight then to Alice Springs the next day which is another 7 hours.

(All the playlist photos and edits are mine, I got bored and well yeah that happened).

#camping #road trip australia #road trip

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Well I’m going off grid for around 12 days as I got myself on a paleontology trip in the Northern Territory on very short notice as In I got a spot 2 days ago and I leave not tomorrow but 6:30 am the next day. It’s 22 hours driving one way so we are gonna have to camp out in Coober Pedy and some other areas along with some stations to get to the sites. The desert in winter is also pretty brutal so I’m expecting frost over everything In the mornings.

#.personal #camping

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The rain is still drenching the southern part of South Australia, we hope to pass that as we reach the desert later tonight, we are bush camping in Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park tonight as part of a long weekend caving road trip.

#camping #landscape #nature #photography #road trip #travel #australia #south australia #landscapephotography #bush camping #travel photography #caving #national parks #nature photography #caves #flinders ranges #road #Highway

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Turns out we are heading up today instead and camping at a bushcamp in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park Again. We will then be heading south and meeting up with the rest of the caving club to then camp on a private station for a few days and explore the caves around there.

Got a bit more interesting today aha.

#camping #caving

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Water Canyon Campground

Mount Taylor

New Mexico

3rd to the 4th of July, 2019

Coming to the end of my paleontology trip, we set up late afternoon as we stayed in a cabin up in the Sandias Mountains just out of Albuquerque the day before.

We attempted to summit Mount Taylor but accidentally took the wrong trail and ended up just below it for sunrise that morning. To be fair we left in the dark at 4:00 am and took the wrong option aha. I honestly think we got a better view from there then the actual summit.

We left that morning and went into Grants after lunch and watched the rodeo then went to El Malpais National Monument for dinner and watched the fireworks set off from Grants and Albuquerque to the east.

#camping #landscape #nature #photography #road trip #travel #landscapephotography #travel photography #national parks #bush camping #nature photography #New Mexico #United States #NM

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And it looks like I have another trip to the Southern Flinders Ranges for more caving, I only got back from Naracoorte last week, it’s a busy time of year for caving.

#camping #caves #.personal

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Parara Bushcamp

York Peninsula

South Australia

1st to the 2nd of April, 2022

Arrived in the dark and had no idea where we were facing till sunrise the next morning, turns out the ocean was on the other side of the campground but we were too tired to really care after arriving that night.

We visited the Ardrossan quarry lookout and headed to the 14km long Corra Lynn cave to do some caving which was super fun. It involved lots of climbing down ropes and crossing ravines and climbing up large washed up tree branches form flood waters decades before us.

#camping #landscape #nature #photography #road trip #travel #australia #south australia #landscapephotography #bush camping #caves #caving

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Looks like I’m heading out to the York Peninsula this weekend to explore the Corra-Lynn caves with the team. We get to camp at the Parara Campground by the beach this time but only for one night.

#camping #caving