Square Perspectives Photo Challenge ~ Australian Landscapes #31
Destination: Australia
Many Australians love a good road trip and, with more than 900,000 kilometres of roads in Australia, there are plenty of places to go.
For a great road trip, leave the major highways and explore the country roads – your journey will be an adventure.
You’ll travel on single lane roads,
and wide dirt roads. Don’t get too close to anyone in front or you’ll be covered in bulldust!
Sometimes you’ll need to go around obstacles,
over cattle grids,
and through farm gates. Make sure you shut the gate behind you.
You’ll find paved roads hand built by pioneers,
and record breaking roads which opened up the interior.
Sometimes you’ll share the road with large vehicles,
or large pedestrians. Don’t argue about who has right of way with either.
So next time you’re thinking about a road trip pack your bags, start up the car and head off the main roads. If you want to see the best of Australia, country roads are the only way to go.
See this post from 2013 for more Australian country roads.
While our travel plans are on hold I’ve joined in every day with Becky’s July Square Perspectives Photo Challenge over at The Life of B. Thanks Becky, it’s been a fun month. The rules are simple: photos must be square and fit the theme of perspective. My posts represent the definition of perspective as a vista – seeing something over distance or time.
wow so many empty roads!
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Thank you for being such a fabulous squarer this month. You have been delighting us with your Australian squares. Do hope you can start travelling again soon
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Thank you, Becky. Having everyone’s squares to look forward to really brightens my day and it’s been fun finding photos to share. Not sure when we’ll be back on the road again, with virus in Victoria and now, unfortunately, in Queensland again. Hopefully it will be kept under control here.
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So hope it is. You do not want to end up like us
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I have faith that our QLD Health authorities are doing their best and are on top of it.
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Excellent to hear 🙂
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When the distances are vast it’s not uncommon for the roads not to be very busy. And I did pick my times for taking photos. 🙂
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Sign of a good photographer 🙂
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Thanks!
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Love road trips! The photo with the Roo is very cool. 🙂
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I took that photo with my phone, through the windscreen. We slowed right down and crawled past him. He was a big fellow.
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You did a great job!
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Those long straight empty roads, and especially the red ones, just shout ‘Australia’! 🙂
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The red dirt ones were amazing, but the dust rising up behind the car was something else. It’s not a time for driving with your windows down. 🙂
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It must be fine if you are the lead car, but not if you are in a convoy. 😉
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You would need to leave a big gap in between.
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Ah the open road, endlessly enticing me on. How I miss it
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Us too. Fingers crossed we’ll be out there again soon.
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I always love the open road. We don’t have any here with kangaroos though! 🙂
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True, although there was a news report last week about an escapee kangaroo which had been kept as a pet. I think it was in California. The police found it tricky to round him up.
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Funny! I wonder if they ever got him. 🙂
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Yes, they caught him and took him away.
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I love open roads too! Not much chance of those in the UK, though Scotland can be quiet away from the big cities. I loved driving in Australia and the USA and South Africa. Can’t see that happening again.
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Certainly not at the moment anyway, but we’re hopeful that we’ll be able to get our new caravan out and head off some time soon.
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Ditto to the open roads. There’s something about being out in open spaces, for me it’s a sense of freedom and peace. Like Becky have enjoyed your views around Australia.
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Yes, just the knowledge that you can go where you want and enjoy the beauty is wonderful. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed this month’s photos Suzanne.
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Just fabulous! You’ve had some great photos in your challenge.
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Thank you. It was fun going back through the archives to find places to feature. I do enjoy sharing our beautiful country.
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Agreed 👏
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We’re looking forward to getting out there again at some stage soon.
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Looks just like my kind of road trip 🙂
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Ours too.
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Love your blog Carol and just nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award – hope you can participate!
https://imageearthtravel.com/2020/08/02/sunshine-blogger-award-5/
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Thanks!
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We so enjoyed driving and exploring Australia when we visited. Well once we got used to driving on the opposite side of the road. The wildlife, especially in Tasmania at night, left one wide eyed and alert! So much to explore in your beautiful country. We barley scratched a corner of it.
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Yes, it’s much the same size as Canada and we only touched the surface there. We didn’t even consider trying to drive on the other side of the road, so I’m impressed that you did.
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Wow. Post is to my mind!!! I love road trips in my country and abroad. Your longest strait road is about as long as our longest highways are. They are not strait, because drivers need to be awake and they have to bypass many lakes which we have a lot of.
Have a good day!
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Drivers on these roads need to stay alert too. You never know what crazy animal might decide to cross the road at any time.
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I had no idea that that was the length of the longest road! And look at the kangaroo on the side! :S
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It seems to go on forever when you drive it.
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You make Australia look so empty! All those roads in a sort of blankness. Where do they go?
be well… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
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These country roads lead to small country towns and eventually to the bigger highways. If you pick the right time, it’s easy to take a photo with no people or cars. 🙂
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