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                    <title>47 Good Things 24 August 2012</title>
                    <description>All good things come to an end so we are typing this up on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Brisbane suburbs with the sounds of a rock band filtering up from the village green a few blocks away. We really havent done much of note over the last two weeks its pretty hard to keep describing the 20 something temperatures and the white sands. Weve been playing tourist and winter refugees as </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Sunshine-Coast/blog-739322.html</link>
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                    <title>46 Queensland Coast 10 Aug</title>
                    <description>From Townsville we moved 100km south to Ayr the heart of the Burdekin Shire. This was at the suggestion of Terry Franzmann See previous blog to play at a Veterans Golf Tournament. We played 36 holes 18 on each of Monday and Tuesday. We werent really eligible as we dont have Australian golf handicaps but the club was very generous to let us play. 36 holes of golf a barbeque lunch a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/1770/blog-736348.html</link>
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                    <title>45 Mt Surprise  to the Queensland Coast</title>
                    <description>From Charters Towers we went further north to Mt Surprise and stayed at the Bedrock campground. The town has a pub a few houses and not much else. We met 2 exkiwis who have retired here We were buying some eggs from them. 4.50 a dozen and for 50c more a bag of mandarins. The surprise is that there is no mountain. Actually a few kilometers down the road there is an amazing series of lava t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-733751.html</link>
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                    <title>43 To Winton  Charters Towers 18 July</title>
                    <description>We omitted to mention that on the way from Charleville to Blackall we came across a recently upturned car and caravan. It appears that they lost control fishtailed and overturned both the car and caravan. Luckily noone was hurt. Many of the accidents involving cars and caravans are single vehicle accidents illustrating that towing a caravan is not always a doddle. The choice of a towing vehicle </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/blog-731325.html</link>
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                    <title>Selling up</title>
                    <description>Coromal Lifestyle L615XC 2008 Good condition lots of extras very high specd caravan for sale available east coast Queensland. Van and lots of extras 52000 ono. lttable classMsoTableGrid stylebordercollapse collapse msoyftitbllook 480 msopaddingalt 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt msoborderalt solid windowtext .5pt msoborderinsideh .5pt solid windowtext msoborderinsidev .5pt</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Hughenden/blog-730881.html</link>
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                    <title>42 "The Outback" 12 July</title>
                    <description>Weve traveled almost due north for a while now and we have been on the middle of the line defining low rainfall to occasional rainfall. This has marked a return to the best part of our Australian odyssey  a return to the songs and poetry of the Australian Outback. We are about level with Rockhampton on the Capricorn Coast but 650km inland about halfway to the Northern Territory border. From</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Barcaldine/blog-729929.html</link>
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                    <title>41 Central NSW  Bathurst 4 July</title>
                    <description>Weve not moved a lot this week as weve only traveled from Canberra to Dubbo but its been fun. The land is generally wellfarmed which we judge by the standard of the farm houses and machinery. Gently rolling mostly sheep with some cropping and some cattle. Little bit of grapes and others too. The countryside is fairly hilly in the east and flattens slowly the further west you go. W</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Bathurst/blog-727942.html</link>
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                    <title>40 Gippsland to Canberra</title>
                    <description>Weve now left Melbourne heading east into Gippsland. It was named by Strzelecki in 1840 after Governor Gipps of NSW. Bet the Victorians hate that. It has a comparatively high rainfall and has lots of dairy sheep and beef. It was originally thickly forested and while they have milled a lot of it there are some substantial tracts of forest still. Theres quite a lot of new planting too. T</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/Canberra/blog-726177.html</link>
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                    <title>39 Back to Melbourne</title>
                    <description>We had a big day the day we left Hobart. Firstly we went to MONA the Museum of Old and New Art. They prefer visitors to come by boat or bus from downtown Hobart and we suspect that is to control the numbers better. Anyway there is some carparking so we got there at opening time 10am and had no trouble getting a park. It was Monday and in Australia it was their Queens Birthday holiday. There </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Orbost/blog-724595.html</link>
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                    <title>38 Hobart  the south</title>
                    <description>We got to play the original Barnbougle course today  the Dunes. It opened in 2005 while Lost Farm opened in 2010 and they are obviously very similar even though the owner used two different golf architects. Loved them both they are a real destination just a pity they are so expensive from NZ. The dining room lounge and rooms at Lost Farm are better than at the Dunes due to being placed</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Hobart/blog-722656.html</link>
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                    <title>37 Melbourne  Beyond</title>
                    <description>Echuca on the Murray is probably only about 70 or 80m above sea level so it was surprising on our way south to Melbourne to recross the Great Dividing Range at an altitude of 600m. No wonder the cars fuel economy seemed terrible. We are now officially in the east again having crossed the Great Dividing Range over a year ago in Queensland. Passed through Bendigo on the way south it was founde</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Tasmania/Bridport/blog-722476.html</link>
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                    <title>36 Along the Murray to Echuca</title>
                    <description>On top of the old slag heap above the town of Broken Hill is the Miners Memorial a tribute to the more than 700 miners that have died since the zincleadsilver deposit was discovered in 1883. The Broken Hill itself has almost entirely disappeared and been replaced by a large slag heap. BHP Billiton started here but worked out its claim by 1939. The ore body is approximately shaped like a large </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Victoria/Echuca/blog-720227.html</link>
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                    <title>35From SA to NSW 21 May</title>
                    <description>After Hawker we moved south to Peterborough which is about 250km north of Adelaide. It is absolutely a town created by a railway. South Australia originally established its rail in 1856 on what was known as broad gauge 53. When the area inland was opened up to save money they used a narrow gauge 36. When the transcontinental rail arrived from NSW it used a standard gauge 48</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/New-South-Wales/Broken-Hill/blog-718256.html</link>
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                    <title>34 From Sea to Sky 14 May 2012</title>
                    <description>A big week. Weve driven about 1000km stopping overnight in Elliston Cowell and Hawker. We left the caravan in Hawker had 2 nights in Arkaroola and are now back in Hawker. We try not to do overnighters as the aim is to see things but dont want to waste time either. From Coffin Bay on the SW tip of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia we drove up the west coast to Elliston. Coffin Bay </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Hawker/blog-716747.html</link>
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                    <title>33 Eyre Peninsula 7 May 2012</title>
                    <description>Weve spent this week on the Eyre Peninsula. This is 200km west of Adelaide a large triangular southfacing peninsula with lots of sheep and wheat production.Whyalla is South Australias 2nd largest city due mostly to the steel mill there backed up by more iron ore exports. We went on a tour of the steel mill but unfortunately were not able to see a steel pour. They convert coal to coke a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Coffin-Bay/blog-715103.html</link>
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                    <title>32 Yorke Peninsula 30 april</title>
                    <description>Finally finally tore ourselves away from the sirens of Mollydooker. We could never work there  wed drink our wages and more Forgot to mention that they have got 99 points twice from Robert Parker USA wine guru for their top wine and we can finally get some wines from Fine Wine Co. ALL their wines that are exported to the States have got 90 or above. Really big wines not your thin Bo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Whyalla/blog-713509.html</link>
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                    <title>31 Wine Country  Sth Australia 20 April</title>
                    <description>31 Wine Country  South Australia 20 April 2012 Got a bit messed up with the photos etc hence entry no30. Anyway picking up from No 29 forgot to mention for those of you with a map Nuttbush is about 40km west of Port Augusta SA. Our route took us there and back into familiar territory as we passed through PA on our way north in our camping trip in early August See blog no 16 Darwin to Dar</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/McLaren-Vale/blog-710998.html</link>
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                    <title>30 More Nullarbor</title>
                    <description>More photos no text needed  there39s nothing much to describe</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/McLaren-Vale/blog-710979.html</link>
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                    <title>29 Nullarbor 9 April</title>
                    <description>The highway across the top of the Great Australian Bight including the Nullarbor was first opened in 1941 and was finally sealed in the late 1970s. From Kalgoorlie to the border is 900km and then to the agreed end at Ceduna in South Australia a further 500km. From Perth to Adelaide the total is 2700km to give an idea of the distances involved. Its a very good road all the way with one stra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Barossa-Valley/Nuriootpa/blog-706338.html</link>
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                    <title>28 The Golden Mile  Kagoorlie 28 March 2012</title>
                    <description>1. Money. We went on a great tour of the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mine. This is the huge pit that has been dug and is currently extracting 22 tonnes of gold a year. The hole is 3 kilometers long 1 kilometers wide and 500m deep. They expect to go down a further 300m and progress further along towards town. The cut may cease in 5 to 10 years because they a run into town and b the ore bo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Eucla/blog-704769.html</link>
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