The Woomera Immigrant Detention Center (for Rapier?) was closed after a short time after some riots, protests, and escapes.
Woomera Observatory
Woomera Observatory
Downtown Woomera - Merry Christmas!
Netball goal -- girls' basketball
Missile Park
This is at the nose of the HAD rocket.
I think I could build one of these.
The first Australian Satellite.
Remains of the first stage
Remains of the first stage
Remains of the first stage
About the town. There used to be a few thousand people living in Woomera. Now there are about 380. But the housing, etc. is still maintained. It's a pretty nice place. It's administered by the Ministry of Defence.
Rocket control, 1960's.
Fossils
That is a nice vacuum tube.
Someone lost a U-Joint on the side of the road.
Electric tower
Tree
Water in the desert.
These duck have big bills.
Pink-eared Duck
Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Pink-eared Duck
Malacorhynchus membranaceus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Black swans and white birds (cockatoos?)
Little Corella
Cacatua sanguinea
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Little Corella
Cacatua sanguinea
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Black swans
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Black Swan
Cygnus atratus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Ducks
Ducks and a swan
Gray Teal
Anas gracilis
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Gray Teal
Anas gracilis
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
A bird.
Two birds
Four birds. Galahs, I think.
Four birds. Gallahs, I think.
Corella
Corella
How many types of birds are in this picture?
Pied Stilt
Himantopus leucocephalus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Pied Stilt
Himantopus leucocephalus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Long legged water birds.
Silver Gull
Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Pied Stilt
Himantopus leucocephalus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Masked Lapwing (Black-shouldered)
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Red-kneed Dotterel
Erythrogonys cinctus
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
Masked Lapwing (Black-shouldered)
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
Roxby Downs, Municipal Council of Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
12/5/2007
The dark rocks are welded to the light rocks.
Roxby Downs. The houses are new, and no houses are available. the Olympia Dam mine has made the town (6,500 people) a boomtown.
The mine.
The mine.
That round rock to the left of my foot looks almost like glass.
A cave.
With bones.
Rental car agreement may have said something about paved roads, but I don't remember.
Diamonds!
Wheat! Civilization! I made it from the north ocean to the south ocean.
Black-Shouldered Kite
