AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 3 May 2008 | Views [597] | Comments [4]
Mt Isa – we hit the 3000 kilometres of our journey. Mining, the best Tourist Centre we’ve come across, ‘nobody cares, its just about the mines here’, and the Tent house. We approached the Isa from the West. We’ve noticed a distinct lack of friendly ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 3 May 2008 | Views [302] | Comments [1]
Albert breaks
and swerves to avoid a soaring eagle.
‘They fly in an absolute random way.’
We are driving
along the Matilda Hwy
from Cloncurry to Karumba. We have the rising sun directly to the left. I can
still envisage the ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [374] | Comments [4]
Our first Road Train Truck Driver (who never gave us his name). We were on our way to Litchfield during the late evening, and had stopped off at a blue P. We’d just finished a cup of coffee, when in pulled a road train hauling wide pipes. The ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [368] | Comments [2]
I left Australia when I was 25. Happy to be rid of the problems I had no experience to try to face. I was too sensitive. I was passionate and angry and had no patience for the real work, for the real caring that a place like this needs. I came back ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [544] | Comments [3]
Every man and their dog seems to be along for the ride. Its early in the season, but there are quite a few travellers out and about. Daily We’re up and away every day before 9am. (Amazing for Albert who is a natural night ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [252] | Comments [6]
(from Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) to Tennant Creek and Mt Isa) Jett – Mum, I’d really like to be a police man, but I don’t want to have to do what they do. I don’t want to be in danger. And I like firemen too, but I don’t want to have ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [316]
The Homestead Pools They reminded me of roman baths in Europe. To get to them, you need to traverse through the homestead grounds and bar. They advertise with little signs along the way about suggestions for your money. The waters were, on the ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 | Views [178]
The swooping sadness of the sign posted landscape points me to the long shadow of the past. Dense red earth with the living memory of hooves decorated with empty bottles of beer lying like glitter to our eyes in the passing van. ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | Views [236]
Nitmiluk is the Jawoyn name for Katherine Gorge. The surrounding land was given back to the traditional caretakers in 1989. The information center highlights the European impact upon the Jawoyn. First of all, its true. The gorge ... Read more >
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AUSTRALIA | Monday, 21 Apr 2008 | Views [326] | Comments [4]
(From Darwin to Katherine in the Ambassador Van – otherwise entitled ‘How prolonged hours of enforced family time makes the mind melt like molten mucus’) New Product Ideas Tiffany with slightly crazed laughter, (after ... Read more >
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