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Around Broken Hill
We got a self drive tour map from the information centre and proceeded to do the self drive tour of Broken Hill. The highlights were: 1.Kimtare Reserve at the beginning of the drive. This is an interesting insight into the mining culture; the head from the Kimtare Mine is worth a good look. 2.Joe Keenan…
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Aunty Sues for dinner
One of the very nice things we found in Lord Howe was the number of small quite nice restaurants serving extremely good meals from modern menus of nouveau Australian and Mediterranean style food. Aunty Sues is up on a hill on Anderson Road. It is an open-timber structure, with decking and enormous wall to ceiling…
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Snorkelling at North Beach
Today was a lazy day we only snorkelled for an hour, walked for two hours and biked about ten kilometres. We went to North Beach by boat with a nice young guy called Peter. Peter had been on the island about six and a half years and was an experienced diving instructor. He took us…
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St Patrick’s Day
Today was meant to be Mt Gower day; however we woke up at 5am in the morning to the sound of heavy rain on the tin roof of our little motel room, it continued to rain until just after 9am. At the south of the island they had three inches of rain and to the…
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Walk to North Bay
We started the day with our usual routine of the shops and then prepared a backpack to walk the trails to the north of the island. We would try and cover all the northern tracks we could. The walk to North Bay meant passing through the Kentia palm forests over the hill from our motel.…