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To the desert!!

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June 4th 2010
Day 57 Were on the road again, We are out of Dajarra by about 9am, with Rino giving us 2 stickers for our travels. It a long jaunt today another 550km round to make it to birdsville We basically just drive all day, making a few pit stops to look around at the vast flood plains, we find some ruins form a homestead house back in the 1880’s and add our names to it. We notice there is still so ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Birdsville

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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