Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

We took a tour bus (6 of us) to Palm Valley and what a surprise. Here is our track driving from Alice Springs to Hermannsburg and then into the Palm Valley oasis along the Frike River. Here is how we got there:

The approach

and this reflects our hiking tracks.

Here is how to make a left turn.

While riding, I was preoccupied with trying to take a photo of myself as it was reflected in the side mirror. Clearly I am a bit stressed

We walked along the stream and to the right, you can see Ellen - tired of waiting for me to take photos of everything

Here is a reflection of Ellen - the little blue dot on the surface of the water

A closer look at the reflection, without Ellen

Tree reflections

the reflections of a forked tree

A real ellen

And a yellow and black beetle

A description of Mpulungkinya

Trail signs

About palms

To the lower left is a Euro - not the kind you can spend

And on the reddish sand is a grasshopper

Yellow flowers watching me

About the desert

A sort of purple flower

Ellen as we walked down the trail

Description of the trail

And reflections (via polarizing filter)

Aligned to minimize reflections

A bee drinking water

A copy cat wasp, thinking about taking a drink of water

A community affair - wasp and bee drinking

C. Frank Starmer

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