Australia 1995 part III - Northern Territory and Queensland

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April 20th 1995

Published: April 11th 2021

The red centre, the green north east and the Great Barrier Reef This is the third and last blog entry from my trip in Australia 25 years ago. Here I will present a mix of some lesser known sites, a few somewhat more known sites and two sites that are absolutely iconic. Alice Springs Alice Springs is right in the centre of Australia and is popular among tourists much thanks to its proximity to t... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Night camp

On the tour to Gosses Bluff we slept out in the open. I think this kind of sleeping bags are known as swags

Model of Gosses Bluff

Gosses Bluff is the remains of a meteorite crater

Gosses Bluff

Gosses Bluff looks very much like a crater, but it is thought to be "the eroded relic of the crater's central uplift", whatever that means...

Gosses Bluff from the inside

When I was in the centre, Gosses Bluff really looked like a crater

Mount Conner

The top of Mount Conner rises around 300 meters above the surrounding land

Opal

This unusually large opal has been dug up in Coober Pedy, the opal capitol in the world

Walkabout Creek Hotel

The hamlet McKinlay is a very small dusty place that became famous when a few scenes in the movie Crocodile Dundee were shot there.

Daintree River

Daintree River is a river north of Cairns

Rainforest

Near Daintree River is a camp inside a rainforest. I enjoyed walking in the forest at night.

Atherton Tableland

Atherton Tableland is a plateau southwest of Cairns. I went there on a hiking and camping trip.

Atherton Tableland

Bushfires are not necessarily a bad thing. This plant actually needs them

Coral

In Cairns I took diving lessons and got myself a diving certificate.

Coral

Included in the course was a visit to Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world.

Coral

A coral I took a photo of during one of the dives at the Great Barrier Reef

Road sign

Road sign warning drivers for various wildlife that has been known to cross the road

Undara Lava Tube

Undara Lava Tube is the largest lava tube in the world

Sydney opera house

The iconic Sydney opera house.

G'Day Mate

Sometimes we add something odd or funny as the last photo as a gift to everybody who make it to the end. Why does it say "G'Day Mate" on the sign?

12th April 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

It looks like it's made of plastic ;o)

12th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

It was real though
I didn't tough it but I am sure it was real. /Ake

12th April 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Was it buggy? or crawly??

12th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Don't recall any of those names
None of those names ring any bell. /Ake

12th April 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Love it LOL

12th April 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Thanks for sharing!

12th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

And thank you for reading
Thank you so much for reading and commenting on the blog. Take care, Ake

13th April 2021

starship VT
starship - VT

Memories
Your blog brought back some great memories of our visit to this part of Australia in 2012. Visiting Uluru and spending some time in the red desert was amazing. But I also liked Cairns, though we also took day trips from there -- training to Kuranda, and a day out to Green Island. Other than the airport, we didn't see anything in Alice Springs. Enjoyed reading your post!!

13th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Writing these make me want to go back
Writing these brought back quite a few memories to me as well. Now I really want to go back to Australia again. /Ake

14th April 2021

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Warning...Wildlife about
So hopefully drivers will watch out so they do not become Roadkill

14th April 2021

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Australia 1995
You saw a lot Ake and covered a lot of miles and probably gave you a taste of how vast and diversified the World's smallest continent actually is. Due to Covid, us Aussies are rediscovering those hidden gems in abundance. We have just completed a 2,200 km roadtrip which only covered a small strip of New South Wales. Hope your meanderings in Oz gave you a sense of why we love our sunburnt country so much.

14th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I hope you write about your NSW trip
I totally get why you Aussies love Australia so much. I do too and I so want to go back. Writing brought back many memories and I also know of many interesting places I want to visit that weren't included in the 1995 trip I made. I hope you write about your trip in NSW because I really look forward to reading about it. /Ake

14th April 2021

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Kata Tjuta
After circumabulating around the vastness that is Uluru, to wander among the surprises that is Kata Tjuta is indeed a must.

18th April 2021

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Down Under
Australia is vast. Thanks for taking us on the trip from 95. We loved the isolation and rawness of this area. I'm sorry we missed McKinely as we could have searched for Mick. LOL.

19th April 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Walkabout Creek Hotel - silly but fun
It felt a bit silly to spend half a day only to see Walkabout Creek Hotel. But I actually like doing silly things like that. /Ake

13th June 2021

alex waring
Alexander Waring

Crocodile Dundee
Ah, indeed, I have just read this blog entry now. I would love to have stayed at the Walkabout Creek Hotel! ? I love the idea of a dry boat race, that sounds like typical Aussie humour! You certainly packed a lot into your trip to Australia, I imagine you very much enjoyed remembering it in this write-up. Thank you for another very interesting read ?

14th June 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I had so much fun writing
Writing these blog entries was so much fun. There were many memories that came back. When I did that trip I was on a really tight budget. It would be interesting to go back now with a substantially larger budget and travel again. I think such a trip would be quite different. /Ake

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