Lake Argyll

18 Broome after Kimberly 29 Aug

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August 29th 2011
From Kununurra we headed south west along Highway 1 to the Bungle Bungles. These are another heap of old Australian rocks that, this time, have eroded in a very unusual way. Because of a small lichen that attaches itself to some strata, the rocks have red and black horizontal stripes. As the prevailing wind is SW and the next hills are Ayers Rock about 7 – 800 km away, the wind is an importan ... 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