Giant Red Seat

Hastings to Broken Hill

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June 21st 2009
We left in the middle of the night, when we were supposed to be sleeping. We overslept the alarm by 1 hour. It took 10½ hours to get to our first camping spot. We did not have breakfast, instead we had lots of fruit - it was yummy! We had to eat this before we entered Mildura. At Broken Hill at the Miner’s Memorial there was a giant red seat. I sat on it and it looked gianormous next to m ... 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