
Sonny Vandevelde
Fashion should be fun and with my photography I love to create those fun moments.
Travel
Sydney > Dubai EK415
early start, but advantage of that is I got to fly all the way across Australia on a day flight, so a very long post this one with a lot of photos
early morning start, and looking like a grim grey wet day
Kangaroos near Sydney CBD
take off, Port Botany
sun's up already
boat harbour
ready to turn
turning to head west
crossed the Blue Mountains
Nangar National Park
Forbes
Lake Cowal
Bogandillon at Fairholme
Condobolin
Condobolin NSW Farmland
Lachlan Shire and the Lachlan River and Lake Cargelligo
Round Hill Nature Reserve
Conoble lake & Kajuligah Nature Reserve
Kajuligah
Near Ivanhoe
Menindee Lake with Snake Island in the middle, having been to Menindee Lake when I visited the " Sunset Strip " it was bone dry I can now see why that is called snake island, as you can imagine when the bone dry lake starts filling up, all the snakes would head to higher ground and all end up on the little Island in the middle
lot more water in there now from when I was there last time, and I can see the road, at the bottom, I took from Broken Hill
Little Topar
Broken Hill
Been there a few times now as well, and I can just make out the Quartz Hill I visited last time on my way to Menindee. Broken Hill looks so small from up here, but it is a big town for the region with a big history
Windmills at Silverton
Crossed over into South Australia near Mooleulooloo
Tea Tree Track going from Koonamore to Frome Downs. some 180kms that will take you about 3 and half hours ( and end up with a very dusty car )
Siccus River
arriving at the north easter part o the Flinders Range, Willows Springs
Bunkers
The amazing Flinders Range
Aroona
even though the flight is now about a good 2 hours since take off, local time here is still early morning, so still lots of long shadows from the early morning sun
Parachilna Gorge
Parachilna Road meets the Outback Highway at Parachilna
Nilpena Ediacara National Park meets Lake Torrens National Park
amazing, how lucky to be able to get such an amazing view of Lake Torrens
epic
Lake Torrens
Murdie Island
Ok, so I am going to be greedy now and say , I would love to fly over here in the middle of the day on a day like this, so the colours are more vibrant and photo is crisper without the layer of early morning dew, haze I'm shooting through now
Andamooka Island
details
Trimmer Inlet
detail, imagine making your way out here somewhere and doing a series of drone shots
so many lakes
Lake Younghusband, with Lake Gairdner on the horizon ( where I have been a few times now as well, another amazing location )
north end of Lake Gairdner and another lake with no name in Parakulia ( can't name them all I guess ) and Stuart highway running in between the two
Lake Anthony
so many of these lakes don't have names and are very remote
Lake Maurice and Lake Dey Dey near Oak Valley
Maurice & Dey Dey
and if you flew past here in 1952, you would have seen this, as that is Maralinga, where the british used to do their atomic bomb tests
Maralinga Tjarutja seasonal lake
so remote, not even any dirt tracks
Wyola Lake
Serpentine Lake, the last before we cross into Western Australia
the lake on the right is basically the border
and crossing into W.A.
Western Australia, and it's ochre soil
interesting shapes and patterns
this is so remote, so many places down there where man has not set foot
Lake Gillen
Little Sandy desert ( Little...but bigger than Iceland )
Lake Carnegie
Boyston Creek
Give you an idea of where we are
oh woauw, that looks amazing
Lake Burnside
Oneahibunga
reminds me of my brother's Octopus tattoo
the colour of the sand around lake Burnside
love this, print please
zoom in detail
White Lake, Aerodrome Lake and Morrissey Creek in the great Sandy Desert
No name, so I call Many Island Lake
The town of Newman
BHP Pilbara Mine
a mine so big they had to build a town
Hope Downs Mine
Kalgan Creek and this area is dotted with water holes, like Stuart right underneath here
Eagle Rocks Falls bottom right on the Lyndon River
still remote, but as remote and a few more 4wd tracks here
Karijini
Chichester and Mount Sheilain the middle
lots of gorges
another mine
and railway lines
Nanutarra Minjina road and Hamersley Gorge
Solomon Mine Site which if you look closely , is spread out over the whole mountain range
getting closer to the coast
near Fortescue, Millstream Chichester National Park
Roebourne Wittencom Road
incredible looking country, like a hard rock, and then carved billion years ago from massive glaciers ( Probably not )
but as someone jsut said, looks look close up of Elephant skin
Mardie, Sino Site and Cape Preston Airport
Fortescue River
Carey and Potter Island
Fortescue Island and Passage Island
Steamboat Island and amazing blue water, ready for some snorkelling
leaving Australia
Barrow Island and Lowendal Island
looking like a great fishing spot
so many Island, unlike the salt lakes we just flew over, all these Islands, including the small ones, all have names
Part of the Montebello group of Islands
would love to drop anchor here one day ( not in cyclone season though )
and looks, reefs, no doubt with coral
and more importantly....waves
oh yeah I see an abundance of lefts and rights
and now for the long stretch across the indian ocean
love my window seats
layers
crossing the equator
tropical
smooth flight so far
Just crossed to southern tip of India
now crossing the Arabian sea
near Arabia
Oman
and yes, waves
Al Khuima, Oman, has a nice little a-frame break of its beach
do you see it
right on the bed in the road, perfect little a-frame
and down the road the Oriental Shrimp Aquaculture farm
Wahiba Sands
dry river bed
nice clouds, hopefully dropping some much needed rain
godzilla
stewardess, there's a godzilla outside my window
nice light
crossing Oman mountain
to UAE
driving through those mountains
when on my way to Khor Fakan
descending for landing
we're not alone
the sheer size of this on the outskirts of Dubai, El Badi Palace
banking
coming into land
Peak hour
5 hours at the airport, then for my next flight to Riyadh, took off straight after sunset, so no photos, so next morning, my first photo from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
the long flight from Sydney
Final approach