the Breakaways

On our way to Coober Pedy on both sides of the road small conical hillocks peppered the landscape like giant anthills. They are spoils from miners’ digs and look an awful lot like the cones we saw at the Breakaways. Walking around at night out here is very dangerous because of the mining activity and…

After our big day and evening in Alice Springs the train headed south and next morning it was stopped in the middle of an empty landscape with flat horizon on all sides. We were at Manguri Station. Due to the lack of infrastructure, I assumed that ‘station’ wasn’t a place where trains stopped, it was…