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Simpson Desert to Birdsville

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July 20th 2013
I haven’t written anything down for the past few days. Too knackered? Too much beer to drink? Who knows? Today I am typing this up in Birdsville. The rest of the desert was a lot of fun driving, very interesting changes in scenery and vegetation, and a lot of slow driving. The change in vegetation between one dune and the next was amazing. Hard to describe, really. We had some challenges on a f ... 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