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Cape York – August 2018

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Cape York – August 2018 As Witnessed from a First Time Visitor to the Cape and not knowing what to really expect. This Blog is written as a “First Time Visitor” to Cape York, as like me,...

Created: 03 Jan 2019 23:34 Views: 12795

The Great Victoria Desert – Our Return Visit August 2014 Part 1

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My planned route that I had worked on for our return visit to Australia’s largest desert, The Great Victoria Desert, was very specific, and if I was not able to do just one section,...

Created: 12 Sep 2014 20:38 Views: 12380

The Great Victoria Desert – Our Return Visit August 2014 Part 4

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After looking through and signing the Visitors Book again at Voakes Hill Corner, we all departed and travelled south on the Cook Road....

Created: 07 Oct 2014 20:54 Views: 11799

Protect your Vehicles Paintwork

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Hi Everyone As promised, I have followed up today on where you can get Auto Skin or the like. I contacted every place that I was given leads to follow up and can report on the following....

Created: 08 Oct 2013 20:02 Views: 11774

Nhulunbuy and Surrounding Area

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So you have taken the trouble to get your free transit permit from the Northern Lands Council and driven out on the Central Arnhem Highway to this remote town and to what some journalists call ...

Created: 21 Feb 2018 21:04 Views: 11636

Ooldea Joining of the Rails 100th Anniversary

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Well after lots of planning, the time was fast approaching for this long awaited special historic event. For nearly two years on the ExplorOz forum I had been reminding and updating readers of ...

Created: 23 Nov 2017 21:58 Views: 10990

Flinders Ranges – September 2016

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With our flying visit through the Flinders during our Oodnadatta Track trip in August, we intended to spend more time again in the Flinders in September when we knew the weather should be just ...

Created: 17 Dec 2016 21:10 Views: 10907

Gluepot Reserve in the Riverland of South Australia.

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Located around an hour and a half drive from the Riverland town of Waikerie, is the very unique Gluepot Reserve that is now run by Birdlife Australia....

Created: 15 Jul 2019 17:17 Views: 10861

Extreme 2006 Simpson Desert Trip

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In the 1980’s we purchased our first four-wheel drive vehicle, a Toyota SR5 4Runner and from then on have ventured out into some very special and remote locations around Australia....

Created: 25 Jan 2018 20:58 Views: 10216

Point Malcolm Lighthouse Drive

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Perched on a small cliff on the eastern side of the Narrows and overlooking Lake Alexandrina is a very unique lighthouse for Australia and the Southern Hemisphere....

Created: 20 Jan 2017 20:30 Views: 10108

Loveday Internment Camps - Riverland South Australia

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Today, the Riverland area in South Australia is world famous for its premium fruit and citrus orchards, but in the height of WW11,...

Created: 01 Jan 2020 11:08 Views: 9080

Waukaringa Goldfields - Outback South Australia

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In early 1873 James Watson discovered gold in the hills north of Yunta, but this new discovery did not cause too much attention, as the economy at that time in South Australia was healthy and ...

Created: 09 Feb 2021 16:46 Views: 8958

How to set up a Bad Elf Bluetooth GPS Receiver to work in Windows

Member: Stephen L (Clare) SA 

Over two years ago, I went down the Bluetooth GPS Receiver path with the help from a couple of ExplorOz Members. I wanted a unit that was going to be reliable,...

Created: 07 Dec 2019 12:37 Views: 8894

Caernarvon Track

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For anyone that had driven the original Skytrek self drive four wheel drive in the rugged Flinders Ranges, will know that it gave you access to the highest 4WD self drive point in the ...

Created: 18 Nov 2019 20:15 Views: 8814

Scenic Road, Ngapala - Not on your Tourist Route.

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Quite often around Australia, many great drives and special features and not on the average tourist drive, and Scenic Road, just north east of the forgotten town of Ngapala is one such small ...

Created: 13 Jun 2016 18:13 Views: 8683

Three States all in a Day's Drive

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Every year around Easter time, we spend ten days in the Riverland of South Australia, an annual holiday event that we have undertaken for a very long time and as Fiona calls it,...

Created: 12 Apr 2015 18:58 Views: 8670

Visiting South Australia’s Latest Silo Art - Cowell

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Early in November, South Australia’s latest painted Silo Art Site, in Cowell on the Eyre Peninsula was complete and it was put on our bucket list to visit,...

Created: 03 Dec 2019 14:18 Views: 8459

Old Stanley Copper Mine - Armagh

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Nestled in a secluded gully in the Clare Hills, west of Clare and in the area known locally as Armagh lies the ruins of the old Stanley Copper Mine and the Mine Captains house that was ...

Created: 30 May 2016 19:52 Views: 8325

Murray River Locks, Weirs and Barrages

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The Murray - Darling catchment area in Australia covers the Murray and Darling Rivers systems and all their tributaries that extends from Queensland,...

Created: 27 Mar 2021 15:51 Views: 7490

Wreck of the Ethel

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In 1876 the 711 tonne, 3 masted Iron Barque was built by S.P.Austin & Hunter in Sutherland, England and was Christened the Carmelo. During its short sailing life,...

Created: 08 Jul 2020 15:15 Views: 6967

Tanami Track

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Linking Alice Springs in the Northern territory with Halls Creek in Western Australia, the iconic Tanami Track stretches for around 1050 kilometres, with more than 800 of that being dirt....

Created: 06 May 2021 10:21 Views: 6859

Abminga Railway Siding

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Here is one for all the Railway buffs. Do you know where the most remote Railway Siding is located in South Australia ? Do you know it once played an import part as a staging point for a ...

Created: 01 Dec 2020 09:40 Views: 6619

Kearnan Historic Munitions Bunkers Terowie.

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A few months ago I undertook what I thought would be a straight forward history research into WW11 munition storage bunkers in Terowie with the help of my great friend Dean....

Created: 11 Feb 2021 20:38 Views: 6601

Death Rock and Kanyaka Waterhole

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Many people visit the historic Kanyaka ruins situated between Quorn and Hawker, but how many visit Death Rock and the Kanyaka Waterhole? You

Created: 10 Aug 2021 10:14 Views: 6214

Argo Barge and its history - Another special South Australian icon.

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Born in Sweden, John George Arnold ran away to sea at the age of only 13 it was here that he learnt his trade. Migrating to Australia,...

Created: 05 Feb 2021 04:50 Views: 6142

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