New Norcia

Pinnacles to Perth

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August 30th 2008
Drove past Emu Downs Wind Farm - not all of the turbines were going - on the way to Dandaragan. We stopped for lunch at Pioneer Park which was next to the sporting complex. You could stay there with a powered site, toilets and showers. All very new and clean, but at 12.30pm it was too early to stop. Headed to New Norcia through Moora (town of murals). There were lots of canola and wheat ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth

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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