Our Darwin Tour – A Retrospective
We have been home from Darwin for a day now and after catching up with things around the house, it’s time to look back on our trip and review our travels. I returned our rental car yesterday and its information screen gave me some interesting details. A direct road trip from Darwin to Melbourne via […]
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Back in Victoria
Our last day in Adelaide gave us a rest from driving. We did a little essential shopping where we caught up with a group of soldiers raising money for Legacy. The corporal in charge was an old timer in the Corps of Transport and we had a long chat about various units that I knew […]
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Adelaide – Our First Large City and Rain
The distance between Coober Pedy and our next stop in Port Augusta was a little over 500 kms. You may ask what is there to see along the way? The answer is (apart from two roadhouses and an artificial town) absolutely nothing! The landscape changes slightly from open desert plains to grey saltbush. After a […]
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Coober Pedy – Its a Gem, But Its Also a Remote, Dusty, Mining Town
We planned a two-night stay in Coober Pedy to give us time to see its attractions and somthing of life in the town. We had actually seen most of it by lunchtime. It’s very remote – the nearest city of Alice Springs is 680 kilometres to the north, and Port Augusta to the south is […]
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Coober Pedy -A Gem of a Town
We have enjoyed the lower temperatures of the last few days (26C) although the next few days are forecast to get hot again. We went out to dinner at the Big Winch Cafe in Coober Pedy tonight and we had to ask them to turn their cooler off as it was making us feel very […]
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Across the Desert to Marla
Just about in the geographical centre of Australia and located in the heart of the Red Centre, Alice Springs is a vibrant modern town with a thriving population of 28,000 people. It was made famous by the Neville Shute 1950’s novel ‘A Town Like Alice’, In modern days, Alice Springs has evolved into a modern […]
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Disappointment in the Western MacDonnell Ranges
We drove 125 kilometres west along Namatjira Drive from Alice Springs to find the attraction that we planned to visit was closed. Not far from Alice Springs we came across the grave of Rev John Flynn, the founder of the Flying Doctor Service. It sits under a high bluff and is topped with a rock […]
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Alice Springs Sight Seeing
After checking out the local temperatures, it seemed that yesterday was a good day for walkiing around the Alice Springs Desert Park. The forecast was showing a maximum of 33C -a far cry from the hot and humid 38C that we have been experiencing in the far north of the Territory. Not only that, but […]
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We’ve Arrived in Alice Springs
We are gradually making progress south down the Stuart HIghway towards Port Augusta and Adelaide. Yesterday’s segment from Tennant Creek to Alice Springs (505 km) was our longest stage yet. We drove on kilometre after kilometre of dead straight road through largely uninteresting desert country. For much of the way, there was nothing of interest […]
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World War Two Military Operations.
It was a long way from Daly Waters to Tennant Creek today – a trip of around 420 kms on another day of 36C degrees. The topography was quite featureless and the environment grew gradually more arid. The trees of yesterday were replaced with small desert shrubs. It was a rather boring drive. We did […]
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Outback Towns and Pubs
On our 250 kilometre drive to Daley Waters today, we travelled through a savannah landscape with millions of termite mounds, both large and small. The temperature was a little kinder – the daily maximum has droppred from 38C to 36C. Such a difference! Not long after leaving Katherine. we passed the entrance to the Tindal […]
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Kakadu to Katherine
After having a few days around Darwin at Point Stuart and Jabiru, we have commenced our journey south to home with our first stop in Katherine. We have allowed sufficient time here to visit some historic places and to take a boat cruise on Katherine Gorge (now known by its Aboriginal name of Nitmiluk Gorge). […]
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