Roxby Downs

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It's been one week and lots of driving to get to a place called Roxby Downs.
This place is a mining community situated next to the biggest Uranium mine in the world, Olympic Dam.
I actually spent a few years hear as a kid and it was interesting to note that I remembered squat.

The trip has been an interesting one, leaving Townsville on Sunday the 6th July 2008, stopping overnight at the following:
Muttaburra -> Coppers Creek -> Coopers Creek (Burke and Wills Dig tree) -> Some place in-between the Dig Tree and Roxby Downs -> Roxby Downs.

All the vehicles in our group are going well, with no major breakdowns.
It's hard to understand how friggin big Australia is until you drive it.

Anyways, next update will probably be in a few days when I can get to another library or Internet Cafe.

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Photos

Stickman Leaving Townsville
This is a picture of the Stickman leaving townsville

Charters Towers
This is some sort of mining thinghie in Charters Towers. Looked interesting so I took a photo

Longreach
There wasn't muich to take a picture of in Muttaburra. The next Day we all went to Longreach and had a look at the Quantas museum. This ia a picture of me infront of a boeng 747.

New car
Me at one of many runis scattered throughout the outback.

Stickman at the S.A border
This is the corner of the S.A and Queensland Border.

Coopers Creek ice
It's was very VERY cold at Coopers creek. Yes that's Ice on my windscreen

Stickman at Dig Tree
This is an image of Burke carved into a tree at the Dig site on the banks of Coopers creek. See how I have respectfully taken this pic

Some bore
This is one of many Artesian bores throughout the outback. Here we have Mick and Sandra checking it out.
The waters temp is about 40 degrees

Andamooka Primary school
I went to school here for 1st and 2nd grade.

Shack at Andamooka
This is what the miners lived in when they were mining for Opals