walking through the desert scrub!

Kirbys in the Desert!

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August 19th 2007
We arrived from Sydney to a red desert place in the centre of Australia. The sky was clear blue, there was hot sun and a cold winter wind. The outback Pioneer Hostel was where we stayed in a ‘four dorm’ - It was a bizarre resort a 1000miles (literally!) from anywhere! The first day we went to Uluru (or Ayers rock as the white immigrants have named it) and walked though the red desert with ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

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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