purple pub Normanton

BFN

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July 14th 2010
Hi All in civilization again after a few days in the back of BFN. Or Lawn Hill National Park up near Burketown in the Gulf, and what an amazing place it was. Here we are in red dirt hell, dry dusty and sparse vegetation nothing but emus and kangaroos and loads of nothing and sooooooooooooo many kms of red dirt roads and then LAWN HILL. It's an absolute oasis, a spring fed water source flowing th ... 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