Working with Indigenous Australians…

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The opportunity to visit an extremely remote and arid part of Australia came my way the other day, an opportunity to spend time in country with a group of traditional landowners and aboriginal elders deep in the desert region of Western Australia.

“The Landy” will be pointed westward travelling deep into the desert region, crossing sand dunes and making tracks as our small convoy travels deep into the desert.

We will make tracks where no other European Australian’s have previously been as much of this trip will be completely across country, no roads or tracks to follow.

They say one door closes and another opens and crikey, isn’t that the truth!

Recently I wrote a piece on “Fate, are you a Believer” after forgoing a trip to climb a 6,500-metre peak in Nepal, but missing the terrible natural disaster that devastated the country following last week’s earthquake; a tumultuous event that has sadly taken the life of many Nepalese people.

I was due to arrive in Nepal last Wednesday, as it turns out the day our son, TomO, broke his kneecap in the school gym.

And yes, he is making a great recovery…thanks!

Mind you when I’m not climbing I am travelling the great Australian Outback, photographing a parched red earth that stretches from horizon to horizon, kissed by a deep blue sky that provides a canopy over our sunburnt country.

Outback Australia

As fate would have it, I received a telephone call from an acquaintance this week, a fellow kindred spirit and outback traveller who is assembling a team of people to assist a group of traditional owners, indigenous Australians, build a structure to house a pump in an extremely remote part of Australia; an area rich in aboriginal history and culture, but rarely seen by European Australians.

It was less than 40 years ago that an elderly couple came in from this desert region after living a nomadic life with no European contact at all. Their’s is a remarkable story and  told in a book “The Last of the Nomads” by WJ Peasley.

I vowed to visit this area one day…

Strewth, I’m more excited than a rooster in a hen house and there isn’t a lot of time to prepare so I’d better get cracking – I look forward to sharing the stories and photographs I capture in between wielding a shovel, pick, and hammer!

Photos: Baz – The Landy…

16 thoughts on “Working with Indigenous Australians…”

  2. Sas May 5, 2015 / 1:50 am

    Good luck Baz, I’m very jealous!

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  5. Lavinia Ross May 3, 2015 / 1:33 pm

    Glad to hear TomO is recovering. Looking forward to your stories from the upcoming adventure! “The Last of the Nomads” will be on my reading list.

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  6. Wilder Man on Rolling Creek May 3, 2015 / 6:37 am

    Baz – I know that I reblog some of your dispatches. I think I should ask you if you mind if I reblog some of your posts from time to time. I’d like to reblog this one; an awesome adventure. Let me know. Peace. T

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  7. ingrid May 3, 2015 / 12:44 am

    You are so lucky to get to do all these great adventures !!! Love the pics 🙂

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  8. mhoustonfl May 2, 2015 / 10:31 pm

    Fate is a wonderful thing – I look forward to the photos!

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  9. ksbeth May 2, 2015 / 9:22 pm

    what a wonderful adventure has opened up for you. all in the way and time it was meant to.

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  10. Gallivanta May 2, 2015 / 8:57 pm

    What an exciting opportunity. Amazing how things turn out.

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  11. Barbara Grandberg May 2, 2015 / 7:18 pm

    so glad that tomo’s recovery is going well :] and looking forward to following your new adventure :}

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