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2 to 23 October 2023.
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We are soon heading from Canberra to Kangaroo Island, taking different routes there and back. Here are the maps:
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This is our overall route. (Click for a larger view.)
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And this is our plan for Kangaroo Island. We are staying at Cape Du Couedic.
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Visitors often underestimate travel distances in Australia. We expect to travel 5,000 kilometres. This is greater than a one-way journey from Gibraltar to Helsinki, from Paris to Baghdad, from Mexico City to Montreal, from Orlando to Seattle, from Delhi to Pnom Penh or from Beijing to Rangoon and the same as from Singapore to Kathmandu. Even on Kangaroo Island, I had to allocate a day to travel to Kingscote to refill on petrol (and visit a few beaches along the way). One end of the island to the other is a two hour drive.
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Links to Posts
Links to posts, as they come out. Also likely posts, and there will be some more mono and IR posts.
- Victoria
- Kangaroo Island
- Adelaide
- Yorke Peninsula
- Return to Canberra
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Previous Visit (1987)
I previously visited Kangaroo Island in 1987, when I travelled around Australia taking photographs for the Bicentennial history of Australian lighthouses From Dusk Till Dawn. Here you can see an account of the equipment I used (mainly large format or 5×4 film) and here an index of posts of those images including images from the book.
Images below are from Kangaroo Island in 1987. (I also visited Lake Mungo in the late 1980s and should have some slides of that but haven’t scanned them so can’t show them here.)
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Cape Borda Lighthouse (1858) and signal cannon (to warn ships).
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Cape Willoughby Lighthouse (1852).
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Seals on Seal Beach.
In 1987 there was no boardwalk and no National Parks Office. There was just the beach and the seals. No restrictions to access and no people around when I was there.
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I stored these slides in my darkroom under the house but there was a flood and they got water-damaged.
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It’s not clear whether this is a tragedy for the loss of the slides or an unintended artistic event.
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Cape Du Couedic Lighthouse Cottage (1909).
We will be staying a cottage like this for five nights. There are three cottages but we will be the only ones there for the first few days.
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Storeroom above Weir’s Cove.
There is a jetty at the bottom of the cliff here. The lighthouse was supplied by sea once every three months and people arriving or leaving were winched up or down the cliff on a flying fox.
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Cape Du Couedic Lighthouse (1909).
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Admiral’s Arch, below the lighthouse.
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The waterlogged seal images used work’s new Mamiya 645 camera which later died, and then I used my 1937 Rollieflex TLR which had much superior image quality (though 50 years old at the time). The other images are all on 5×4″ film using an Arca-Swiss monorail camera and Schneider or Linhof Schneider lenses.
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