samphire-flats

Updated: May 23, 2025

Here I saw a pure white spinifex rat, leaping the tussocks in front of me, but of course had no means of stopping it. All that day we followed the tracks, over sandhills, samphire-flats, through clumps of desert oak, past dry wells, from sunrise until sunset.

David Wynford Carnegie - Spinifex and Sand

These ranges, such as they are, occur at intervals of a few miles up to thirty or more, and between them scrub-covered plains, sand-plains, or flat stretches of open forest are found. In the deeper undulations, long chains of dry salt-lakes and samphire-flats are met with, occupying a narrow belt, perhaps one hundred miles in length.

David Wynford Carnegie - Spinifex and Sand