The Ghan. We’re off today for one of the world’s epic train trips from Darwin in Australia’s ‘Top End’ to Adelaide in Southern Australia. This is a really long train – 971 meters (about 6/10ths of a mile). The trip is some 1,850 miles and takes 3 days. Not far south of Darwin things get pretty…
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We board the ‘Ghan Railroad’ this morning. 1st stop, Katherine Gorge. No wifi for a while so we won’t be posting or responding to messages. BTW – we’re late on posting so stuff might be out of sequence. Cheers!
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We are back in civilization and with a couple of loads of laundry to do. Our lodging has a guest laundry. Lucky, for me, they are the more traditional washing and drying machines and I’m able to make short work of the chore. We decide to spend our short time in Darwin visiting two of…
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Today is our much-anticipated trip into Arnhem Land, a vast wilderness area in the indigenous Aboriginal regions of the Northwest Territories. It’s a huge place – 38,600 square miles (almost the size of Kentucky) defined by rocky escarpments, rivers, waterfalls and Aboriginal rock paintings, likely the largest concentration of rock art in the world. Early…
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