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The Alice Springs Sewage Ponds is on the northern side of the MacDonnell Ranges, stretching west from Heavitree Gap. As well as the birds and other wildlife to be seen there, visitors to the Alice Springs Wastewater Treatment Works can experience the atmosphere and landscape at different times of the day and years.

Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0855 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (7:45 am June) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (7:45 am June) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (7:45 am June) © Dorothy Latimer
Early morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (7:45 am June) © Dorothy Latimer
Morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8 am April) © Dorothy Latimer
Morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8 am April) © Dorothy Latimer
Looking west in the morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8 am April) © Dorothy Latimer
Looking west in the morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8 am April) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
Cloudy morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (0814 am March) © Dorothy Latimer
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Morning light at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8 am July) © Dorothy Latimer
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Morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (8:30 am July) © Dorothy Latimer

It was still fairly dark when we arrived, awaiting for daylight to break…

Alice Springs Sewage Ponds, Central Australia, NT
Morning at the Alice Springs Sewage Ponds NT (7:30 am October) © Dorothy Latimer

The ranges provide an amazing backdrop for photographing the migrant birds, as well seeing birds on and in the native flora around the ponds — check out our Landscape of Birds at the Ponds

Pied Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds
Pied Stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus), Alice Springs Sewage Ponds, NT © Dorothy Latimer

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