Elsey NP

Mataranka to Darwin

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June 21st 2007
Thursday 14 June 2007 Aaaaah to fall asleep to the sweet sounds of a feral donkey - now that’s something I never would have thought I would say!! Last day at Elsey National Park. We went for a gorgeous swim at Bitter Springs thermal pool (where there weren’t 100 old people from a bus tour as was the case at Mataranka Springs the previous day). We had a snorkel so we could look around and it ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more