Katherine Gorge

Alice to Darwin

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October 15th 2005
So after three days doing the Red Rock, we headed on towards Darwin. 1500 km to go! We stopped in Devil's Marbles and Mary Ann Dam before reaching our first camp at Banka Banka, 600 km later. Huge mistake sleeping with the tent door open at night. Woke up with moskito bites all over my legs, looked like I had some sort of deadly disease! From the dry, lovely heat of Uluru to stickier and stickier ... 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