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Lake Eyre to Hooky's Water Hole

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July 13th 2013
We have had a big day. We continued from our camp spot down to Lake Eyre North – the big one! The road was terrible. Around 60km with some of the worst corrugations around. We arrived to see that the lake was a fair way out. In fact it was too far for us to walk to however we did have a look around the sea shore and the sand was mixed with some sort of graphite to make it black and slippery. Pa ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia

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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