September 21, 2019

Service day and Arborist work

13/09/2019 Today was another day of service checks. I cleaned some tables at the day use area. A tour operator made mention that they needed a clean.  The tables were pretty gross. I wonder if the tour operator contributed to it? After reading the visitor book. One of the campers […]

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September 20, 2019

Weeds, Water Holes and Palms

12/09/2019 Started off the day spraying some broadleaf weeds in a patch of palms near the ranger station. From there we did a patrol near an Aboriginal Outstation and surrounding water holes. It was so tempting to have a swim in the rock pool. It was a magnificent spot. After […]

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September 19, 2019

Introduction to Service Checks – Water is Life

11/09/2019 One important aspect to managing a National Park is to ensure all visitors and staff have fully functioning amenities and services. This involves checking there is enough water, power is being supplied, facilities are clean. These checks are carried out 3 times on weekdays and on Saturday’s and Sunday’s. […]

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September 19, 2019

Link track – weed survey cont’

10/09/2019 What an awesome night sleeping out, under the stars. Looking at the Southern Cross and working out where South was. I crawled out of the Swag for another day of weed survey further South on the Finke River. The Athel Pine weed was less in number, on the link […]

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September 18, 2019

Weed Survey – No time to Waste

9/09/2019 There’s no time to ease into it. We are tasked to identify, map and remove Athel pine weed along the Finke River. It is regarded as one of the worst weeds in Australia because of its invasiveness, potential for spread, and economic and environmental impacts. It forms dense stands along […]

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September 15, 2019

The Trip Into Finke Gorge National Park

8/09/219 It’s time to reach my final destination, Finke Gorge National Park. It was an easy 120km drive West of Alice to Hermannsburg. Then a 22 km gravel road into Finke Gorge NP. Lots of corrugations, sand and river stone. But not to bad. The track meanders in and along Finke […]

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September 15, 2019

Rest Day In Alice

7/09/2019 Just a relax day in Alice. Stocking up on food and seeing a couple of things around town. One of the first things to look at was the old telegraph station. It’s pretty impressive. It marks the original site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs. It was […]

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September 6, 2019

CU in the NT

Friday 6th September. I left Marla in the morning and finally crossed the border from South Australia into the Northern Territory (NT). I pressed on for the rest of the day and reached my destination Alice Springs. Alice Springs is located in the physical centre of the Australian continent, roughly […]

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September 6, 2019

Opal Capital of The World

It’s now Thursday 5th September and this day will make it 5 days that I have been on the road. After leaving Glendambo, in the morning, the first thing that was apparent was the amount of road kill. It was stretched out over at least 50km, where kangaroos had been […]

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