Mountains, red dirt and green tufty grass

G'day from Karratha

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July 7th 2009
After a pleasant couple of days at Carnarvon where we met some very nice 'neighbours', we left there yesterday morning, still trying to decide whether we'd go to Tom Price and Karijini National Park or straight north. We saw the sign to Karratha and that decided us. Yesterday's trip was through outback country - the usual red dirt, grey-green scrub with the occasional beautiful white trunked, wee ... 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