East of Alice Springs -- Pictures from around the area

Pictures from around the Alice Springs area, but a bit farther east (about 60 - 90 km)

	Trephina Gorge. Trephina Gorge is a wonderful gorge, one of my favourites. It is about eighty kilometres (80 km) east of Alice Springs off of the Ross Highway on the way to the old historic gold mining area of Arltunga.
	Feral Camel wandering through the scrub. As a note, the dromedary camels (one hump) are now feral after having been introduced in the late 1800's. They served as transport of the late 1800' s and early 1900s. They transported materials from the northmost railhead at Oodnadatta in South Australia for making the remainder of the trek into Alice Springs. The persons doing the trek were Afghans (this is where the term "Ghan" comes from -- the name of the passenger train that runs from Adelaide in South Australia to Alice Springs twice weekly). The camels were used up to when the old narrow guage train line was extended from Oodnadatta into Alice Springs in 1929. Then materials were easily transported from to and from the south with Alice Springs.
	Arltunga Ruins. This is the site where there was a small gold rush in the late 1800s into the early 1900s. The site is about one hundred kilometres (100 km) east of Alice Springs. Part of an old stationary engine, especially the boiler, is in the centre of the picture.
	Arltunga Ruins. What remains of the site's windmill.
	Arltunga Ruins. The remains of the stationary engine.

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