Amelia Earhart Memorial Lae PNG

Dec 24, 2011

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Amelia Earharts last flight doesn’t matter here. Its of no importance to the locals and I guess most of them don’t know who she was and her importance in aviation development and modern western women. The struggles of Papua New Guinea are much more fundamental than that.

The last leg home

Sep 3, 2007

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vherring

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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vherring

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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vherring

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…

Henbury Meteorite Craters

Aug 29, 2007

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vherring

in 2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, Camping, Road Trip

Pieces of rock the size of a 200 litre oil drum made these huge indents in the earth as they hit the at around 40,000 Kms an hour

Tag: Historic Significance