A few pics from Diesel' travels....

[Diesel]

I mate sent me a few pics of our recent sojourn we undertook out to South Aussie...


This time I am in a few....  lol sorry for spoiling the scenery...     





At the start of the Flinders Ranges just outside Port Augusta SA







Standing over Davo' Memorial Plaque in the 'middle of nowhere







Stella and Growly's Boulie at the lookout up Horrock's Pass. (You can clearly see the Spencer Gulf, looking south from this point).







About to have our famous 'Bacon & Eggs' in the somewhat empty main street of Wilmington, S.A.







Diesel at the Border Gate - which is the border crossing of SA and NSW - just shy of Broken Hill







This is the film location of many scenes in the movie Mad Max II - Road Warrior - just outside Silverton, NSW.


- Click this link to see it in the movie.


- Another link - click here


Cheers, Diesel

[Biggles]

Excellent pix, Dave.  When was that ride?
I know the first pic is the famous curve that is the banner of the FR site.

[alans1100]

Cockburn where the Border Gate cafe is was where I first started school in 1960.

[Diesel]

Cockburn where the Border Gate cafe is was where I first started school in 1960.

Plenty of Goats and Emus in that area Alan - didn't seem much else tho - what is the pop. of Cockburn?

Oh look, here's some now (across the road from Border Gate Cafe)...

Excellent pix, Dave.  When was that ride?
I know the first pic is the famous curve that is the banner of the FR site.

Sept 2012 Biggles - and you are or course correct about it being the location of the famous 'Banner Shot' for FarRiders.

Cheers, Diesel

[alans1100]

The town was the SAR (SA railways) border station back in the days of steam and the early diesel years. Dad was either the station master or at least worked in the station around 1960.

Population from here is 25 as of 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn,_South_Australia

A town called Burns (no longer there) was on the NSW side of the border but if you look at the map http://goo.gl/maps/V1sE5 you'll see that the Border Gate Cafe (red roof where hwy crosses border) is actually in NSW, not SA so the town of Burns might still be there in name only.

Back in those days State Rail locomotives and their crews only worked within their own state so engines etc were swapped over at border stations like Cockburn/Burns and Serviceton in victoria

Sorry for the brief history lesson.......