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Wildflower Country - Mullewa to Northam

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. Back to previous chapter - Carnarvon to Mullewa From our flower bedecked camp at Mullewa we explored the local area, finding new delights at almost every tu

Created: 04 Sep 2009 11:17 Views: 26533

Travel Bugs

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When we are on the road our cameras are always ready for action. Just occasionally there is a bug that just has to be caught by the camera – because its unusual, or big,...

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Simpson Desert and Batten Hill Trip, 2007- Part 5 Mount Tietkins

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. Next day the scientists and their volunteers arrived, about a dozen people, excited to see their new camp and keen to get out into this new area....

Created: 28 Apr 2007 13:49 Views: 26405

Grampians Wildflowers

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. It was early October, probably the height of the spring flowering season, when we spent a few days in the Grampians National Park in 2006....

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Exploring Queensland, July 2006. Part 9. Georgetown to Ravenshoe: snakes, hot springs and a tin dred

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The Georgetown caravan park was doing good business thanks to the wet weather, as quite a few travellers came in to dry out. We spent a day there doing routine “housekeeping”,...

Created: 25 Oct 2006 16:16 Views: 26049

Following the Big Wet - 2011 Trip – Part 6: Sturt National Park to the Flinders Ranges.

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Next morning we took the opportunity of some fine (but still grey) weather to do a bit or repacking so we didn’t get on the road until late in the morning....

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1997 Troopy goes to Tasmania, Part 2.

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Moving on to Queenstown we booked into an underground tour of the mine that produces copper, gold and silver. First we had to get kitted up with hard hat, gumboots, goggles, lamp,...

Created: 10 Sep 1997 17:52 Views: 25857

Photo Comp 2010

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. What does it mean to Explore Oz? The answer is as big as our wide brown land!

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2002 Trip - Kimberley & Kakadu. Part 1 – Canberra to Alice Springs

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Our trip in 2001 to The Red Centre was so enjoyable that we were determined to do more trips, and to go even further afield. Thus enthused we planned a two month adventure taking in Kakadu and ...

Created: 24 Oct 2002 19:39 Views: 25401

Following the Big Wet - 2011 Trip – Part 13: Diamantina NP

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. A cool morning saw us on the road early, heading across rolling open country towards the old homestead that now serves as the park headquarters and visitor centre....

Created: 29 Oct 2011 14:44 Views: 25342

Troopy goes to Queensland 1999. Part 1

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. Our Tasmanian trip in 1997 had left us with an appetite for further travel. We had a house-sitter this year so with nothing to stop us,...

Created: 15 Jun 1999 15:58 Views: 25273

Following the Big Wet - 2011 Trip – Part 5: Trilby Station to Sturt National Park.

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Leaving Trilby we safely negotiated the 3km of slippery track back out to the main road. Once there we called Liz on the UHF to give her a road report – there was a minibus at the station ...

Created: 09 Oct 2011 11:15 Views: 25269

Troopy goes to Queensland 1999. Part 3

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Next day we drove into Cairns for a look at the foreshore and marina, and to send out postcards. We spent a while checking out the boats in the marina - quite an assortment from charter vessels to ...

Created: 23 Aug 1999 16:02 Views: 25162

Exploring Queensland, July 2006. Part 6. Paddling at Lawn Hill.

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Excitement and anticipation ensured that we were up early, packed up and at Lawn Hill by about 9.30. It was a beautiful day, calm with a clear blue sky after a pleasantly cool night....

Created: 10 Oct 2006 12:09 Views: 24979

2001 Troopy’s First Trip to the Red Centre – Part 5 Palm Valley to Home (Canberra)

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We made an early start next morning as we wanted to reach King’s Canyon and do some exploring there. On the road out from Palm Valley we passed an incoming tourist bus in a big hurry....

Created: 16 Sep 2001 21:38 Views: 24845

Exploring Queensland, July 2006. Part 11. Long road home: Dimbulah to Canberra.

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A flat tyre greeted us in the morning, so our motorhome non-tyre-changers got to see how a wheel change was done. It was foggy and damp but eventually we were on the road again admiring this rich ...

Created: 28 Oct 2006 21:48 Views: 24838

2001 Troopy’s First Trip to the Red Centre – Part 4 Ross River to Palm Valley

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Arltunga is an early gold prospecting and mining area said to have been the incentive to bring the first white men to the centre. Not many white women came in those early days....

Created: 10 Sep 2001 16:37 Views: 24817

Northam to Albany

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. Back to previous chapter - Mullewa to Northam While we were rejoicing at once more being among real trees, we remembered that big trees need rain - and the rain

Created: 03 Oct 2009 13:23 Views: 24737

1997 Troopy goes to Tasmania, Part 1.

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When Troopy was not much more than a lad – in late ’96 – he went on a honeymoon. And in a way so did we. It happened like this - one of our sons and his new wife wanted to tour Tasmania for ...

Created: 10 Aug 1997 17:49 Views: 24732

Exploring Queensland, July 2006. Part 8. Burketown to Georgetown.

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We left Burketown and headed east on the bitumen road to Normanton. We had not been driving for long when we came across a cattle muster in full swing....

Created: 13 Oct 2006 18:13 Views: 24717

2009 Trip - Canberra to William Creek

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Back to Introduction Its time to go. Jim and Jane are meeting us on the highway, so farewell to Dolores and Peter, who are minding

Created: 26 Jun 2009 20:55 Views: 24605

Following the Big Wet - 2011 Trip – Part 12: Birdsville to Diamantina NP

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. Next morning we had a brief trip back through Birdsville to the garbage tip to discard oil from Troopy’s last oil change, and admire the mountain of spent tyres,...

Created: 26 Oct 2011 17:36 Views: 24578

Nardoo or Marsilea drummondii

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. Nardoo has a place in Australian history because it’s what Burke & Wills were eating when they starved to death on Cooper Creek. What is it and what does it look like?...

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Following the Big Wet - 2011 Trip – Part 1: Preparation

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Dorothea McKellar summed it up perfectly: I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains....

Created: 29 Sep 2011 16:25 Views: 23779

2009 Trip - Lake Eyre and the Painted Hills

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Back to previous chapter - Canberra to William Creek And so on to William Creek, a tiny settlement with an annual rainfall of about 120mm. But

Created: 26 Jun 2009 21:06 Views: 23738

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