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Alice Springs, Australia’s heart and soul
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.
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Henbury Meteorite Craters
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
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Garden of Eden in Kings Canyon
The walk around the rim is spectacular and well worth the effort, the rock formations are fantastic and even with the many travellers on the track there’s still a feeling of solitude. Well marked but not over developed, it felt a privilege to do this walk.
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2007 Red Centre, Attractions, Australian Fun, Camping, Pubs We Drank In, Road Trip, Walks, Wild Life
Dingos in the campground
I have to put a final word in on the German Cyclist if anybody has followed his story. I like to report happy endings and I think this is a happy ending. When we got up for breakfast, it became apparent the gentleman suddenly had two bikes by his orange tent and there was both and…
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Walking in Kata Tjuta
On the way back from my shower this morning I saw our European cyclist with a passion for the bathroom scrubbing the plastic floor of his tent. Hmm, I thought, I’ve never done that in the seven years we have owned our tent, I must remember to do that one day. We drove out to…