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Lake Eyre & Uluru

One of the most iconic sites in Australia is Uluru. Lake Eyre is waterless most of the time but springs to life when huge cyclonic driven rain fall in Queensland. That water takes months to flow to the lake. This trip is a rare opportunity. Læs mere
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    Engine Preservation Society.

    25. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    It is always good to see history preserved. These people are keeping old internal combustion (and some steam) engines alive. Many are restored and working.

    One interesting item was a very old outboard motor made by Johnson. It was huge and heavy with not a lot of power.Læs mere

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    Olary

    26. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    As we travel around, sometimes we witness such sadness seeing a town that is struggling to keep going. Now just a pub and little else Olary would have been a busking place when the railway was active.

    It looks likw there has been a recent fire that has razed much of the town.    Læs mere

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    Big dice

    26. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Big Things. Everyone loves them. Here just a short way off the road, easily missed is the big dice.

    One of the great things about modern apps is the ease we can find interesting things along our route.Læs mere

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    Peterborough

    27. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 4 °C

    We decided to spend the night in Peterborough. We were lucky to get a spot in the van park. There was a Ferguson tractor Rally and the BMW motorcycle club. 29 veteran tractors and about 80 motorbikes.

    If we had been just a bit later arriving we would have been camped somewhere else for the night.

    The tractors travel about 109 kilometres per day at the speed of the slowest tractor. In this case 15kph. Generally they try to travel on minor roads.

    Rhe motorbike on the other just go. They were planning ove 500k on this day but sometimes go further. Being adventure riders they stay off the major roads and get down and dusty.    Læs mere

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    Train memorial

    27. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    This site remembers a train crash where two people died. The train coming south on the long downhill run had brake failure and crashed into a freight train coming the other way after it ha run past the siding where they would normally pass.Læs mere

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    Surveyors Memorial

    27. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    A nice spot to take a break and get a photo of the interesting mountains that are off to the side of the road. Ever changing as the light and shadows play on the millennia of weathering.

    This spot marks one of the many survey spots and remembers the hard work done by the surveyors.Læs mere

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    Parachilna

    27. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Parachilna is reinventing itself as a place of fossils. Once it was a station on the Ghan railway line on the way to Oodnadatta. More recently the lu e running past carried coal from Leigh Creek enroute to Port Pirie. The mine closed two years ago so the 10 minute earthquake like rumble is no more.

    That line to Leigh Creek is no longer used and unless the mine reopens nature will take it away over time.    Læs mere

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    Nearing Maree

    28. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    As we motored nearer to Maree, our destination for a flight over Lake Eyre, we noticed a large sign announcing we were now in Arabana country. This is a huge area with huge cattle stations scattered over the expanse.

    Closer to Maree was the stone man. Details are not known but he shares place with a memorial plaque to commemorate 150th anniversary of the crossing of the centre from Adelaide to Van Dieman Gulf in an expedition led by John MacDouall Stuart.

    This revealed the nature of the centre of Australia. The overland telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin followed this route and later the Ghan railway to Alice Springs.    Læs mere

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    Marree

    28. august 2019, Australien ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    We have arrived at Marree. This will be the place we board a small aircraft and take a flight over Lake Eyre. This will be quite interesting since it has water.

    The flight will also fly over the Marree Man. This is the largest geoglyph in the southern hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Nobody has claimed to have created it but there are many unconfirmed theories.

    The graphic depicts an aboriginal man with a hunting stick and can be seen from space. It was about seven kilometres of lines in the red earth about 150cm in depth. It is speculated that the points marked with bamboo stakes must have used GPS.

    Because of the accuracy it is thought that some military personell may have been involved.

    Recently it had become less distinct. A plan was made to redo the outline at a cost of nearly a million. Eventually it was done using a grader at a fraction of the cost expected. The new outline was designed to collect rain water and should promote plants to grow along it. Marree man is a huge tourist draw card.    Læs mere

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    Wangianna Ruins

    29. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    Once a station on the old Ghan railway line, the building is noe quite a mess. There is a lot of graffiti and cattle have been in the building. Sad to see so many buildings along the old railway list like thisLæs mere

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    Mutonia Sculpture Park

    29. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Up the Oodnadatta track a few miles from nowhere is a quirky collection of sculptures. The most imposing exhibit is two aeroplanes perched on their tails to form two connected crosses.

    There are many items on show many that have stories. There is no explanation easily found but stories and theories are out there. I managed to hear two of the stories.

    The first is the Ghan hover bus. The story is told to me true but I'm a bit sceptical. In the days when the Ghan ran from Adelaide in the south and Alice Springs in the north the people rejoiced. The tyrant God of isolation was banished.

    The people were happy and boarded the train to make festivities and parties at this place. From each direction they cane and did have much .merryment. Tales were told, song was made, food was supped and many couples were formed. Then they did go and await the next party.

    In time there was great sadness, the Ghan was stilled and the tracks removed. The people were perplexed for a solution for the distances were great.

    A wise inventor had a daring plan. The St Aggie's bus was to be replaced with a new one. Since the road was often fit only for camels he decided the only solution was to create the Ghan Hover Bus Service.

    The bus traversed the old track route and brought the people together again. Once again the park was filled with joyous sounds of happy people.

    The second story concerned the poor whale stuck in the fence. She swam here in the great flood and got stranded by the fence. Now she waits for the next flood so she can swim back to the sea.    Læs mere

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    Marree Man - The Mystery

    30. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C

    Some of my readers may already have this story via MMS. Internet service in Marree was very poor so there has been no opportunity for a while to upload footprints.

    We flew over Marree man on our lake Eyre Flight.

    After 20 years, Marree Man is as much a mystery as he was when first discovered in 1998.

    The huge 4 kilometre high geoglyph depicts an aboriginal man hunting with a boomerang or perhaps a throwing stick. The image was originally etched 150 to 200 mm into the red earth with lines around 40 meters wide. The location is a perfect canvas. A large very clear level plateau that is surrounded all around by 10 m cliffs that jump up from the vast salty plains.

    The area was not used by aboriginals or even visited by many people but how someone managed to mark out the image and dig the impression is rather intriguing. Dick Smith was as curious as anyone and even offered a reward for information about the creator.

    There is absolutely no evidence of who did it or how it was done. No tracks of any kind, no discarded items and curiously no satellite images. It is almost as if the creator had a lot of help to make the image.

    Naturally some have speculated that the only way something like this could have been done involves aliens with advanced technology.

    Some people here in Maree don't really care to find an explanation to this fine whodunit. It brings many visitors to the area who spend on accommodation, food and air charter flights.    Læs mere

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    Lake Eyre Flight from Marree

    30. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

    The goal of driving some 400 kilometres north from Peterborough was to take a flight over Lake Eyre. The lake only has water every few years when there is greater rainfalls in the catchment area. All the water evaporates quite quickly.

    The flight was perfect with very smooth conditions and we had a chance to see water in the north lake.    Læs mere

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    Marree - Camel Sundial & Art

    31. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    One of the interesting points of interest in Maree was the Camel sundial. It was telling the correct time. On the water tank there is a beautiful mural recently completed.

    Nearby is the Afghan mosque. Another interesting building is the Lake Eyre Yacht club. Members head out to the lake to sail in times there is enough depth of water.Læs mere

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    Aroona Dam

    31. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    Aroona dam was built to supply water to the Leigh Creek mine and provide water for the town. The area was declared a sanctuary in 1995. Yellow footed wallabies have been reintroduced and are breeding well.

    Controlling foxes, dingos and feral cats has been a challange.

    The mine was closed in 2016 and the town provided with an alternative water supply. The water is now used for tourism and conservation purposes.    Læs mere

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    Jeff Morgan Gallery

    31. august 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Jeff Morgan has created a tourist attraction by making a number of huge panorama paintings. He has a huge display of thousands of rocks.

    A number of fluorescent rocks in a dark room under UV light was quite impressive.Læs mere

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    Steam town Museum

    1. september 2019, Australien ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

    Peterborough was the steam train hub of South Australia, extending to Broken Hill over the NSW border and even Alice Springs in NT.

    When diesel came along a combination of beuracratic manipulation and other factors saw the decline around the 1960s.

    Seeing the presentation in the evening brought together quite a few things we had seen as we tripped from Broken Hill, Silverton and on up to Maree.    Læs mere

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    Town Carriage museum & Bob

    3. september 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    The carriage museum was a brilliant free exhibit in Peterborough with quite a lot of local rail history and memorabilia. A highlight of the visit is sitting in one of the cabins and experiencing a short trip to Broken Hill. The scenery and stations roll past the window and you hear all the sounds. The seat even shudders as the train clippity clunks over the rails. "ALL ABOARD! "

    Bob the railway dog was remembered with a statue in front of the carriage. During his 17 year life he spent most of his days like a canine Huck Finn, riding the trains all over South Australia. He was loved by crewman and some of the regular passengers. His favourite spot to ride was high up on the coal tender.    Læs mere

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    Riverton

    3. september 2019, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    On the way from Peterborough to Adelaide Pam needed some "tweet therapy". We visited a nice park with quite a few birds. Even a new one to be identified. A great break.

    There is quite a lot of areas as we drove brilliant with canola bloom.Læs mere

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