Broken Promise

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Sun. 7th July 2019 We promised ourselves that we would walk less today, but that promise was doomed as soon as we saw the steps up to the 10,000 Buddhas Temple after lunch. I am getting ahead of myself as …

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If Only The Map Was 3D

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Fri. 5th July 2019 At breakfast in the hotel, I find a book called The Heritage Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong and that one of the walks described ends near our hotel. Guess what, we decide to walk the route …

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A Free Day In Brisbane

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Tue. 2nd July 2019 The travelling and flight from Darwin took up most of yesterday, so even we cannot fill a full blog post about that! Moving on to the next day, we knew little about Brisbane, so decided the …

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Goodbye Lovely Beast

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Sat. 29th June 2019 The Land Cruiser is due back mid afternoon so we are making the most of our last morning and drive to East Point and Darwin Military Museum. We arrive to the sound of an air raid …

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Homage To John McDouall Stuart

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Thur. 27th June 2019 At breakfast, I say my mission for today is to photograph a wallaby with a joey in its pouch. Although there are many wallabies hopping around the cabins, I have not seen any with a baby …

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Rock Art

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Tue. 25th June 2019 Today, we are concentrating on the area close to Arnhem Land where there are fine examples of Aboriginal cave art. Arnhem Land itself is an area of NT which was signed over to the Aboriginal people …

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Magic Maguk

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Sun. 23rd June 2019 Having done our chores in Katherine last night, we head straight back through town and on to Pine Creek an hour and a half away. This town was once busy with the gold rush, then iron …

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Bonus Day

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Fri. 21st June 2019 Having driven from Kununurra to Katherine yesterday, we now have an unexpected day free. We utilise the Internet and desk space in our hotel room right up to the 10am checkout to try and catch up …

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Making It Up As We Go Along

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Wed. 19th June 2019 Tonight, we are staying in Kununurra 120km away so it is back over the Pentecost River crossing and then 40km of unsealed road with the rest of the direct route is sealed. That would be too …

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My First River Crossing

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Mon. 17th June 2019 Why didn’t we wake earlier? It was already unbearably hot and it was only 8am as we packed our tent away. On the plus side, our washing dried overnight on the line. With our bonus day …

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