Birdsville Hotel

Birdsville

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June 26th 2009
It was a long dusty road to Birdsville. When we got there we looked around for a long time, but we finally found a campsite beside the river, under the windmill. We set up camp and drove out to Big Red. Big Red is a huge red sand dune at the start of the Simpson Desert. I climbed up it. There was like a platform of sand on the angle, when you got to the top, but you could go up a little mini ... 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