Luke & Jax

21 Pilbara with Family 19 Sept

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September 19th 2011
We left you when we were in Karijini National Park, which we really enjoyed. There are two main gorges created by the base rock splitting and then being excavated by the occasional rains over millions of years. The rocks are dark red and there so much iron content that some of the rocks we pick up are actually magnetic! When we left the Park we undertook the longest days drive so far – 501km. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Karratha

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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