South Australia

These photos include more aspects of the bike in this area including the obelisk statue to acknowledge Matthew Flinders for the work he did in circumnavigating this country an how difficult it must have been.
Most of the time (based on the accounts that we read) the explorers struggled to find enough fresh water which most of food the time was sourced from digging holes into the ground and hoping to strike ground water.
There are also stories of some of Flinders crew getting lost and not surprisingly Flinders himself only lived to age 41(?) young in any event and again common because of the illness and disease commonplace at this time in history. Met a group of international tourists who travel with this guy in a bus around Australia which seemed like a very cool job.Weiterlesen