Historic Significance – Good Old Chinwagging

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.

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

The last leg home

September 3, 2007

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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.

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

Outback Pub Crawl

September 2, 2007

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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

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

A night at Walkabout Creek

September 1, 2007

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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…

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

Henbury Meteorite Craters

August 29, 2007

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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

Good Old Chinwagging

Amelia Earhart Memorial Lae PNG

The last leg home

Outback Pub Crawl

A night at Walkabout Creek

Henbury Meteorite Craters

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