There is a surprising amount of digging required out on a project for Desert Discovery. Some of the survey teams needed to move a lot of sand for their data collection methods and the base camp needed deep pits for the toilets.
Geoff and Jenny ran both the Logistics Team, which managed the base camp set up, and the Mole Team, so they were up to their armpits, literally, in holes and trenches.
21 Jul 2026
S6 E06 Sparkle Scat
What can animal droppings and footprints tell us? Quite a bit it turns out.
In this episode we follow the Desert Discovery tracking team around for a day and one of the first things we find out is why echidna poo sparkles.
I feel like my day with the tracking team forever changed how I observe the ground beneath my feet and what can be seen, via tracks and scats. Often the marks are very tiny and very subtle, but they're there.
They're indications of all the life that we coexist with that we often don't see. All the critters that we share our world with that are often invisible to us because they don't wanna be seen by us. But we are sharing our landscapes and our ecosystems with them.
Transcript, links and show notes available on the Saltgrass Website.
28 Jun 2026
S6E05 Long Shots
Bilbies, great desert skinks, malleefowl and stick nest rats. Burrows, mounds, and many kinds of excretment. Clues, fragments, and ancient relics. No matter what team you were on, everyone on Desert Discovery was told to keep an eye out for these rare and unlikely species or what they may have left for us to find in the landscape.
Transcript and show notes available on the Saltgrass Website.
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