Our first fire!

Fletcher Creek Campsite

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August 26th 2010
The start of our second leg. The landscape is really starting to change. The soil is getting red, the land is flattening out and the trees are thinning out. We filled up the van’s water tanks at charters towers and headed out to Fletcher Creek Campsite which is about 30 kilometers out of town. A really nice site, open paddocks and near the river. There were cows in the paddocks but none came ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Charters Towers

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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