Large format on canvas Small format on canvas       Homage to Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Aboriginal artist (1936-2002)

By the afternoon we anxiously scan the horizon
for a place to pitch our tent and spend the night.

B remembers somewhere a little further along –
BARAMBIE, an abandoned sheep & cattle station.

The homestead and outbuildings are gone;
all that remain are a windmill, water tanks
and troughs in disrepair.

Stunted, twisted mulga trees in the distance
Look like Japanese Bonsais in this vast space.

Rocky outcrops (known locally as breakaways)
turn golden, pink and mauve as the sun drops down
below the horizon, making way for a huge orange moon.
Vast mobs of kangaroos swarm across the home paddock,
come for their evening drink.

Velvety night falls and I walk through an endless valley
filled with rustling, whispering bush noises,
Bonzo the dog by my side, under a canopy of stars.