Big Country

[willedoo]

Street view images - guess where? Hint: can get a bit cold in winter (no, not Tasmania).

 

 

 

 

 

[Yenn]

Looks like The Territory.

[willedoo]

It does, but it's Santa Cruz Province in Argentina, on about the same latitude as the Falklands. Amazing how so much country around the world looks like Australia.

 

Comparing these two, top photo is Argentina, bottom photo is the Eyre Highway just out of Port Augusta.

 

 

 

 

 

And this photo in Siberia could easily be mistaken for the Darling Downs in Queensland.

 

Edited May 16, 2020 by Guest

[onetrack]

I was quite surprised to see how much of Spain looks like rural Australia. Little wonder the Spanish missionaries settled in quite well at New Norcia in 1846, when it was still "Tiger country".

[pmccarthy]

In Broken Hill I had friends from Rajahstan. When I eventually went there it was just like Broken Hill.

[willedoo]

Another place was Burma, back in the mid 80's. We were driving through the dry plains in the centre where there were eucalyptus plantations. Between the dry country and the gum trees, you could swear you were in Australia. Amazing how the smell of a gum tree can make you homesick when you've been away for a fair while.

[willedoo]

New Norcia

Had to look that one up; it's quite a story.

[Yenn]

Edited May 17, 2020 by Guest

[Yenn]

Something went wrong here. I only intended one photo and then couldn't put in text, my stuffing around added 2 m ore. That was on the Stuart Highway I think. On the same trip I was walking in the Olgas and the Roulettes came and did a display overhead. Must have been practice for the display they did later that day over The Alice.

[facthunter]

Shopped innit? No shadow. . Nev

[old man emu]

Shopped innit? No shadow. .

 

No disturbance of the grass by propwash. Sunlight glinting off the wing root. It's a long way from Montana to the Stuart Hwy.

[Yenn]

Would I do such a thing? I once had a one man photo exhibition titled "The camera never LIES" Every photo created in the darkroom.

[old man emu]

Yeah. I used to say, "Trust me. I'm with the Government."

[willedoo]

Another Google Maps screen grab. It could be mistaken for the drive into Cunnamulla, but it's the Eurasian Steppe just east of Volgograd (Stalingrad). The reason I was looking at it is that I'm reading Antony Beevor's book 'Stalingrad' and he was describing the view of the Steppe the Germans got when they reached the higher west bank of the Volga. If you photoshopped some kangaroos into the photo you wouldn't know the difference from some of our inland country.

 

 

[old man emu]

You would. That blacktop is in pretty good nick.

[onetrack]

....for a Queensland Outback road......

[Yenn]

There are only two types of Qld road. Rough and roadworks.

The roadworks go on for months at a time, often with nothing happening except the speed restrictions. I think even the police are fed up with them as they don't seem to book people for speeding when nothing is happening. Fancy 40kph for a backhoe working about 1m off the side of the road. A piece of machinery beside the road for aver a month and not used, someone has money to burn. At least it keeps the unemployment down, there are more working the stop go signs than there are building the roads.