Eighty Mile Beach

Broome and places nearby!

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September 17th 2011
Hello again! At the end of the last blog, I described to you our time at the beautiful Karijini National Park. When we left there, we spent a night in a free camp followed by a night in the industrial mining town of Pt Hedland which we left as quickly as possible! The next day we drove again through a dry semi-desert landscape then pulled off the main road and drove 6km on a dusty red unsealed ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Broome

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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