So strong!

Onwards to Darwin

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May 13th 2009
Back on the open road we visited the West MacDonnell Ranges, just an hour outside Alice. It's a beautiful mountain range with various permanent waterholes (great swimming) and the best beer garden in the world at Glen Helen homestead. Driving up to Darwin we made the compulsory stop off at Daly Water pub. It's an outback pub in the middle of nowhere but has a big reputation on the Stuart h ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory

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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