 Brolgas take an after-dinner stroll along a bush track (above); the labyrinthine rock formations of Beal Bluff (right): a Major Mitchell cockatoo flies low over a waterhole (below) |
 Pelicans, galahs, corellas, black ducks, Major Mitchell cockatoos, topknot pigeons and a dozen other species of birds circle around the grass-rimmed dam. Brolgas step lightly through the tree-rich scrub. Beal Bluff, some seven kilometres long, is a riotously striated series of red-shale rock folds studded with caves, secret passages and sheer cliffs that drop steeply down to the plains below – in short, an explorer’s and rock-climber’s paradise. The scene is Aldville Station, between Quilpie and Cunnamulla in southwest Queensland. Visitors to this part of the Australian outback are invariably stunned by the richness and abundance of nature-treasures to be found here. See image preview: http://www.photographersdirect.com/simmons/search.asp?lb=10204
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