The last leg home

Sep 3, 2007

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in 2007 Red Centre, Australian Fun, FrontPage, Pub, Pubs We Stayed In, Road Trip

Only a publican for nine months, this ex-Sunshine Coast guy had taken the turnover from $5000 a week to $11000 a week. His was almost always booked out.

Outback Pub Crawl

Sep 2, 2007

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in 2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, Featured, FrontPage, Historic Pubs, Pub, Pub Yarns, Pubs, Pubs We Drank In, Pubs We Stayed In, Road Trip, Wild Life

She came out with a fabric shopping bag, which had in it a beanie and inside the beanie was a baby Wallaroo. This little guy was tiny, and had simply been hanging around in a bag on a hook by the bar, while she worked behind the counter

A night at Walkabout Creek

Sep 1, 2007

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in 2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, FrontPage, Historic Pubs, Pub, Pub Yarns, Pubs, Pubs We Drank In, Pubs We Stayed In, Road Trip

We called in at the pub, entering the bar, the first thing that was apparent was emptiness. Just empty, no tables or chairs, no people only high stools around the bar. It was a long building with paraphernalia around the walls and on the rafters, and at the far end the one piece of furniture…

UFOs and Stone Marbles

Aug 31, 2007

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in 2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, Camping, Outdoor Art

I certainly wasn’t thinking of aliens, aliens hadn’t crossed my mind at all before we stopped at Wycliffe Well for petrol.

Alice Springs, Australia’s heart and soul

Aug 30, 2007

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in 2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, Camping, Museums

The link these people had to the rest of the world was a single strand of steel wire and the sound of the Morse code clacker. This wire was the connection between Europe and Australia by overland telegraph to Singapore and then cable from there to Darwin.

Category: 2007 Red Centre

The last leg home

Outback Pub Crawl

A night at Walkabout Creek

UFOs and Stone Marbles

Alice Springs, Australia’s heart and soul