Heading West 1. This says it all

Heading West

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September 20th 2011
We are finally heading west, and things are getting quite remote, and dry, and hot, and dusty…..and fantastic! This is the start of the real Aussie Outback - a great way to end the trip. Right now we have stopped for the night in a small town called Cloncurry, where we can finally connect to electricity after five nights without, and the air con went on straight away. We have just discovered tha ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cloncurry

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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