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                    <title>Ceduna southern WA and home</title>
                    <description>19th September 2012 We left our Coffin Bay campsite just before 9am and headed north. The countryside was green and gold and rolling hills initially very scenic. We had morning tea at Elliston a pretty coastal spot. We stopped at Murphy39s Haystacks some unusual looking rock formations in a field for lunch. Alex was bitten on the head by a bee while looking at a beehive. After lunch we noti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Ceduna/blog-744188.html</link>
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                    <title>The Eyre Peninsula</title>
                    <description>15th September 2012 towards the Eyre PeninsulaWe left Adelaide just before 9am and headed north towards Port Germain. We camped in the Germain Gorge free camp area which is a nice quiet spot. We saw two snakes on the road and three blue tongued lizards two on the road one near camp. There are quite a few birds here too.We took a scenic drive through the gorge to Murray Town a historic old t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Eyre-Peninsula/blog-743286.html</link>
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                    <title>Adelaide</title>
                    <description>7th September 2012We left camp at around 830am and headed towards Adelaide past green crops golden canola fields cute historic farmhouses sheep and ocean glimpses. It was cool with some wind and rain. We got to our Adelaide Shores caravan park just after noon and set up camp. It looks very nice here very clean amenities playground and a big jumping pillow thing for the kids.I39ve been to</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Adelaide/blog-741555.html</link>
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                    <title>Outback South Australia</title>
                    <description>3rd September 2012We left our Ayers Rock Resort campsite just after 8am. We fueled up at Erldunda and continued to the NTSA border rest area where we met Mum and Dad as planned. They have travelled down slowly from Alice Springs since having their hitch repaired the day we drove to Kings Canyon. We continued south camping in the rest area 35km south of Marla. The rest areas in South Australia a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/South-Australia/Coober-Pedy/blog-740906.html</link>
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                    <title>Kings Canyon and Uluru</title>
                    <description>Kings Canyon and Uluru29th August 2012 Mikes birthdayWe left camp just before 8am. We called into Alice Springs for fuel and had morning tea at the Finke River. This is the worlds oldest river 350 million years old. We saw several wedge tailed eagles as we continued. We had lunch at Mt Ebenezer Roadhouse which now offers no services at all then continued to Kings Canyon Resort where we</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Uluru/blog-740231.html</link>
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                    <title>Alice Springs and the MacDonnell Ranges</title>
                    <description>23rdAugust 2012After a leisurely breakfast of pancakes we made our way to Desert Park. This is a lovely natural park set against the MacDonnell Ranges with lots of wildflowers. We started by seeing the bird show where trained birds including a barn owl pink and grey galahs a curlew brown falcon whistling kite and black kite flew around the audience for food treats. Then we walked around to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Alice-Springs/blog-740174.html</link>
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                    <title>Heading towards the centre</title>
                    <description>18th August 2012We left our interesting BP campsite at about 745am and headed inland along the Overlander39s Way the way between Townsville and Tennant Creek. The landscape changed as we drove becoming less tropical and more temperate woodland. We saw a bustard and an emu and drove through sections of golden wattle and fern leafed grevillea. We had morning tea at a rest point on the outski</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Mt-Isa/blog-737870.html</link>
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                    <title>Murray Falls to Townsville</title>
                    <description>15thAugust 2012It was a cloudy drizzly morning in Cairns. We packed up camp and gave the Jayco a wash before we left. It really needed it red dust all over. We had lunch in Tully and climbed the big Wellington boot erected in remembrance of the 79m rainfall Tully had in 1950. We drove on through cane fields banana plantations and other farmland to Girramay National Park where we camped at Murr</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Townsville/blog-737716.html</link>
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                    <title>Cairns</title>
                    <description>11th August 2012We went into Cairns and walked along the coastal boardwalks. There are free exercise stations along the boardwalk and they even run free fitness classes there too What a great idea. None running at the time though. We went to the markets then I went to organise a haircut while Mike supervised Alex and Kyle at a playground. After lunch I had my trim and we did a bit of shoppin</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Cairns/blog-736528.html</link>
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                    <title>Lake Tinaroo Danbulla National Park</title>
                    <description>August 8th 2012It was a cool day with some light drizzle. We visited the Cathedral Fig Tree and the Curtain Fig Tree both very impressive specimens. The Curtain Fig Tree is about 500 years old and once grew along a tree that fell on an angle hence the angled root system. We drove through Yungaburra a gorgeous historic town and stopped at the creek where there is a walk and platypus viewing hid</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Atherton-Tablelands/blog-736091.html</link>
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                    <title>Leichardt Lagoon  Undara lava tubes</title>
                    <description>4thAugust 2012We left our Adels Grove campsite at about 815am and headed towards Gregory Downs. We saw several wallabies on the way. A road train approaching us appeared to be in a rosy halo with the sun coming from behind the big dust cloud. Its a very dusty road we had to pull over to let the dust settle. We got some fuel at Gregory Downs and continued on a back road through Augustus Dow</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Undara/blog-735042.html</link>
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                    <title>Boodjamulla Lawn Hill National Park</title>
                    <description>31stJuly 2012We left our campsite at about 830am. We fuelled up at Doomadgee roadhouse in the morning then had morning tea near the Gregory River crossing. Mum and Dad have decided to go to Burketown to see if they can get repairs or parts for their van suspension and then camp at Leichardt Lagoon until we rejoin them after our trip to Boodjamulla Lawn Hill National Park in about 5 days. Mum </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Queensland/Boodjamulla-National-Park/blog-734865.html</link>
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                    <title>Into Queensland</title>
                    <description>29th July 2012  We left Lorella Springs at about 8am and got to Borraloola at about lunchtime. We bought fuel and a little food and filled the water tanks and had lunch in town. A local aboriginal man came and had a chat with us told us where he was from and where the water is bad. We called to see if we could book a campsite in Lawn Hill national park however they were booked out. We camped ne</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Borroloola/blog-734348.html</link>
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                    <title>Limmen River National Park to Lorella Springs station</title>
                    <description>ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgt 25th July 2012 Richard and Marion left early at about 730am to head home via Bitter Springs. We left our campsite at around  9am and had a swim in the lovely Bitter Springs. These are warm springs with natural vegetation tall palms and pandanus surrounding them and you can drift downstream to stairs further down. Very worthwhile having a d</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Borroloola/blog-734344.html</link>
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                    <title>Mataranka</title>
                    <description>ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtMataranka24th July 2012We left Kakadu at about 8am and headed for Katherine. We did a big grocery shop had lunch and drove on to Mataranka. We had a swim in the hot springs and also saw the replica We of the never never homestead made for the 1981 movie based on the book by Jeannie Gunn.  We camped in Elsey National Park campgrounds a ba</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Mataranka/blog-734343.html</link>
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                    <title>Kakadu</title>
                    <description>July 21st 2012We started the day in the cool predawn on a boat cruise along Yellow Water and onto the South Alligator River named before the explorers identified the species as crocodiles. The river is amazing fringed with grasses with roots 3m long so they can float with the wet season and with huge pink flowering water lillies and pandanus.We saw lots of birds including the jabiru not al</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Kakadu-National-Park/blog-731759.html</link>
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                    <title>More of Darwin</title>
                    <description>19thJuly 2012 We started the day with a visit to the Aviation Museum with Mum Dad Richard and Marion. Very impressive to see a B52 there  they are pretty large planes. Very interesting displays of a wide range of aviation history. We then went our separate ways as we had some errands to do banking some new boots for me as mine have given up the ghost after many years some books for Alex</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/blog-731543.html</link>
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                    <title>Litchfield National Park and Darwin</title>
                    <description>15th July 2012We left Katherine and had morning tea and a swim at Edith Falls just north of Katherine. This is a lovely spot for camping or day use with scenic falls and a good swimming area. We had lunch at Hayes Creek then continued to Litchfield. We saw the amazing magnetic termite mounds which are sheetshaped and oriented to reduce solar heat input. Incredible to think how a colony of i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Darwin/blog-731080.html</link>
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                    <title>Into the NT</title>
                    <description>11 July 2012We ate a breakfast of sliced fruit and cut the rest of our fruit and veg into sandwiches and salads to comply with quarantine requirements as we left Kununurra and drove into the NT this morning. However it seems to be an honour system however there was no staffed checkpoint. Apparently it is stricter entering WA and we39ve been given some honey and half a watermelon by travellers</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Northern-Territory/Katherine/blog-729562.html</link>
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                    <title>Kununurra</title>
                    <description>8th July 2012We left Parry Creek Farm just after 8am and drove the short distance to Kununurra. We went to the Information Centre and booked a river cruise for tomorrow did some shopping and set up the camper at Ivanhoe Village Caravan Park. We were able to wash the car which was absolutely coated in red dust. We drove to Kelly39s Nob lookout Ivanhoe Crossing river crossing and through som</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Kununurra/blog-728761.html</link>
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