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Where is the most remote place you've been?

I really like getting away from all the hussle and bussle. I love those moments when you find a breathtakingly beautiful place and you can just sit in silence and take in the surroundings.

In Aus, Wilson Promontory is as isolted as I've been. you have to walk in and out, so it's not a place for the masses. It's a spectacular, rugged, untouched piece of Aussie beauty.

In Eastern Morocco, sitting atop a huge sand dune on the edge of the Sahara watching the sunset is a memory I'll have for life. Although there were about 20 of us up there, for a reasonable period, everyone just sat in silence (probably because it was so damn hot!) and took in a desert sunset.

My personal favourite though, is a spot near Banff called Lake Minnewanka. I used to take the single track mountain bike trail about 18kms in from the road to where the lake bends around. There was a spectacular little pebble beach looking back accross the lake to a couple of towering snow capped mountain ranges. Most days it was just dead silence, with odd bird piping up every now and then. Occasionally, the forest would ruslte a bit, which was freaky being bear and cougar country. But it all added up to part of the beauty of the place. Here's a pic from Google:


Anyhoo, lets hear about your remote adventures....

Elcho island, 550kms out of Darwin is about the most remote place I've been.

Trader wrote:Elcho island, 550kms out of Darwin is about the most remote place I've been.

Good fishing?

There is an eco-lodge a few clicks west of a tiny fishing village called Dixcove on the coast of Ghana, near the Ivory Coast border. The beach stretches as far as the eye can see and it's all yours. There isn't even a single hawker trying to sell some piece of crap to you.

Spent a few days there just body-surfing, reading and catching up on sleep. Even got to see a Leatherback turtle lay its eggs on the beach.

devilsadvocate wrote:

Trader wrote:Elcho island, 550kms out of Darwin is about the most remote place I've been.

Good fishing?

Dunno, I was there for work!
All the talk was about amazing fishing, but in the couple of days I was there I never saw anyone with a rod!

Nice thread DA still waiting for your eastern europe photos too!!

Remote and natural wilderness is pretty much why I travel !
One of the most beautiful areas (remote in parts with some awesome walks), is where we hired a bottom story of a house in Llao Llao near Bariloche in southern Argentina for 5 nights last year, tourism here is sparse and largely centred around its winter snow. The place is amazingly idyllic! We had a car and explored the region. Give me remote over cities anyday!! Look this place up if you’re in the area!

*One of many surrounding lakes
*View early morning from our decking.

a couple more!
looking back to our house and
the lakes district!

da, I agree with all the places you've mentioned, especially Lake Minnewanka - lovely place.

The most remote 'place' I've been is a spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between NZ and Cape Horn. The nearest land was an uninhabited reef, 1000 miles away!

On land, a place in Utah, called Hanksville felt like the middle of nowhere. It's at the end of a wonderful, wonderful drive from Bryce Canyon to Moab, througfh Torrey Canyon and Capitol Reef NP.

The lakes in the north of Ontario are pretty remote as well.

most remote place for me would be manning gorge on the gibb river road or balgo community on the nt/wa border. not much in either those places in terms of development or people

The edge of the Sahara:



(NOTE TO SELF - give the missus a slap for not holding the camera straight!)

A scree slope on my single trail route along Minnewanka:


Looking back towards Banff with Mount Rundle in the background:



Speaking of Mount Rundle, here's a pic I took from the top. Lake Minnewanka is that little blue bit in the top right hand corner!


This is my favourite remote spot. The pic doesn't really do it justice (I need to stitch together a panorama I have of the area), but I used to sit and chill and have a bit of food to gear up for the 30km bike ride home. (Looking back, that was quite dumb in bear territory!):

devilsadvocate wrote:(NOTE TO SELF - give the missus a slap for not holding the camera straight!)

Photography 101. Get the horizon parallel!

Quichey wrote:

devilsadvocate wrote:(NOTE TO SELF - give the missus a slap for not holding the camera straight!)

Photography 101. Get the horizon parallel!

Don't pick on the poor girl...it could be the curvature of the earth on the horizon...or maybe she was trying to be artistic

Actually looking at it if she'd got that horizon level what angle would DA be at maybe stand up straight is the lesson here.

Regards
JAS

JAS wrote:

Quichey wrote:

devilsadvocate wrote:(NOTE TO SELF - give the missus a slap for not holding the camera straight!)

Photography 101. Get the horizon parallel!

Don't pick on the poor girl...it could be the curvature of the earth on the horizon...or maybe she was trying to be artistic

Actually looking at it if she'd got that horizon level what angle would DA be at maybe stand up straight is the lesson here.

Regards
JAS

Hahaha, touche!

man! i think canada needs to be my next port of call ! nice, reminds me alot of NZ south island, only a little more dramatic.

devilsadvocate wrote:The edge of the Sahara:
(NOTE TO SELF - give the missus a slap for not holding the camera straight!)

The human figure looks vertical though so perhaps the sands are tilted..

AFLflyer wrote:man! i think canada needs to be my next port of call ! nice, reminds me alot of NZ south island, only a little more dramatic.

You could do worse mate!
Canada is honestly spectacular. The people are really friendly, it's safe and is really easy to get around.

The remotest place I've ever been is where I'm working right now. Fly-in fly-out, a copper and gold mine in the clouds.

Tell us more, MK.

Sounds interesting.

Spent a week or so in a cave near the Zimbabwe/Mozambique border with my brother back in the early 90's. Had to carry everything in (except water which we got from streams) on a day-long trek from the nearest village. Nobody around, not even locals, for miles. We were hardened self-sufficient backpackers by that stage after almost eight months travelling around East Africa. Didn't think anything of it at the time but thinking back now I'm breaking out in a cold sweat!