The Pound

Into the Outback

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July 20th 2005
We left home at around 8am catching a bus to the Wayward Bus office in Waymouth Street, this would be the first backpacker bus tour that we had ever done and the last that my wife will ever do. Actually we would take one tour up through northern South Australia and southern Northern Territory to Alice Springs and then change buses and continue on to Darwin. There were about 20 seats on the bus whi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Wilpena

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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