Swanvale lookout

The Outback trip and the B Towns

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June 5th 2007
Our journey in our government issued 2 wheel drive 4 cylinder car started in Mackay on the coast of Qld on Sunday morning at 5-30am. After a quick stop at Nebo for breakfast and a hilarious look at the police breath testing the campers from the night before rodeo, we were off on our outback trip. Our lunch stop was at the Gemfields 450km inland from Mackay. 50kms west of Emerald lie the towns o ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Birdsville

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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