I have been looking around to see if I can find any aboriginal stories that relate to the look of masks/faces in the rocks that you can see on the far side of this pic. I can't find any.
Does anybody know of any?

Les,
Some accounts say that there were no indigenous people living on the Island before the whalers and farmers came. It was uninhabited. The Island is only slowly beginning to recover this aspect of its colonial history.

Even the picture of pre-European settlement in South Australia is sketchy.

Gary,
I just stumbled upon a list of Australian photoblogs. I haven't explored them apart from the New Zealand one--- Lachezar's photo_notes And here is a list of photoblog applications for you to browse. It would appear that Pixelpost is the favourite.

There are thousands of photographers are on Flickr but only a few have photoblogs. Flickr appears to be more a storage archive. A photoblog seems to be a big step to take---the demarcation line between "amateur" and "professional."

Pam,
Being known as "The Island of the Dead" would of been a great deterrant to living their I would think.

There is some interesting stuff about trade routes in your link.

Pam,
Dunno about the amateur professional stuff given the existence of Fotolog, which is very popular. So the "amateurs" have their own fotologs. The shift to something like Pixelpost requires having a domain name and then paying for private hosting. It's like having a MT weblog.

I have played around with a photoblog on Facebook--Fotolog. Wikipedia says that it is the oldest and largest photoblogging community on the web and the third most trafficked social media network on the Internet.

I use the free version, which is ad-supported and limits me to uploading one picture per day. The site works okay, quite well. I haven't done much to develop the fotoblog and not posted each day, as I was more concerned about how it worked inside Facebook. After using Fotolog for a while I had decided not to go for the premium service. The money is better spent on Pixelpost. It looks a lot better.

Fotolog looks to be similar to Blogger.

Gary,
the hard distinction between amateur and professional is easing when Fotolog publishes a book---fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age (ed) Andrew Long. This is organized in sections highlighting several themes that arose in the site's community of photographers and several individual photographers from some of the major cities and countries with many fotolog users.

A big shift is taking place with digital photography that is breaking down the old amateur and professional distinctions. The professionals are of interest if they are on Flickr and have a photolog.

Les,
the extensive trading routes amongst indigenous people before European settlement is an eye opener isn't. Some history books need to be changed as the human history of our continent did not start with the Europeans--eg., James Cook, or the Dutch. Nor can the history of Kangaroo Island be celebrated as a pioneering settler success of prosperous farming. The Island's future is that of a wilderness area for international tourists plus clean and fresh produce.