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  • SpringWandererThick Black Line. An odysseyПутешественник
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    Cheers mate!

    28 июня 2017 г., Австралия ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Today I delivered my lovely campervan to Britz Brisbane. What a time we've had!

    As a finale, and to kill a bit of time because I only had a short drive (all those to-be-managed time differences between check-out and check-in 🤔) I stopped off at Cormorant Bay on Lake Wivenhoe which is a massive reservoir to the NW of Brisbane which supplies water to the area, is used to generate power and is important in flood management. It's also very beautiful.

    Now I'm settled in Brisbane for a day with time to re-sort my bag and squeeze it closed for the last time.    Читать далее

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    Creeks

    29 июня 2017 г., Австралия ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    All the creeks have roadsigns giving their (white settler) names. As I've been going along I've made a note of the ones which interested me most. They're here in the order I came across them, or remembered them! Some are geographically descriptive and some hint at some occurrence. I imagine conversations like:
    'I'll meet you at the creek'
    'Which one?'
    'That one where we found the dead dog'

    Dead Dog
    Le Souef (probably a family name)
    Capsize

    On the road to Laura:
    Hell's Gate
    Double Barrel
    Earl
    Quartz
    Ruth
    Gallop

    Devil Devil - the repetition is interesting
    Bower bird
    Spear
    Weedy St George
    Stony St George
    Pipeclay
    Scharlottenburg
    Liverpool
    Limbo
    Corduroy
    Raspberry
    Chinaman

    Christmas sign decorated with lights
    Easter sign decorated with a picture of an egg

    Seven Mile (and many variants! These intrigue me ... measured to and from where?)

    Gladstone
    Palmerston

    An interesting collection between Springsure and Rollerston:
    Orion
    Alderbaren
    Meteor

    Little Roundstone
    Conciliation - I wish I knew the story
    Clovernook
    Boundary

    Tea Tree
    Three Moon (at Cania)
    Ivory
    Emu
    Lambing

    Blunder (how I laughed as I spotted this while navigating the toll roads around Brisbane)

    And also (not creeks)
    Grateful Ponds
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    Home!

    30 июня 2017 г., Англия ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    After 34 hours of travelling Brisbane - Sheffield I've made it home. Especial thanks to sis and Mark for collecting me from Manchester Airport - hugely appreciated 😆 And thanks to Sarah for getting supplies in and making my house look so welcoming. It's fantastic to travel and see so much and have so many adventures and still to feel happy walking in the door and reacquainting myself with home.

    How green everywhere looks - and different to rainforest green. A soft, lush green. Lovely.    Читать далее

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