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Into the Outback and beyond |
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Leaving our "home base" in Melbourne we hitched to Adelaide and then took a bus straight up the Centre. Happily we were able to stop as many times as we wanted along the way. |
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Our first stop was Coober Pedy, a town known for its opal mining and deathly hot summer temps (as high as 52 degrees cenigrade some say). To avoid this heat many people live in dugouts like the one on the right. |
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And what is a trip up the Centre without a stop at "Uluru" ("Ayers Rock")? |
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We were quite impressed to say the least. |
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We took the bus straight up to tropical Darwin in the North, and using it as our new base, made a short trip out to Kakadu National Park |
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This Park is incredible. Not only is it home to cave paintings thousands of years old, it is also home to a diverse array of fauna and flora. In the "Wet" the whole park floods and you can take a boat over the submerged hiking trails. We saw our first croc from such a boat, as it watched us silently from its log-like position ahead. |
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