Author: angela7marino
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Bush Doof
You might think based on my photos that all I did in Australia was swim. You would not be totally wrong there. Darwin was a small exception. Considering every piece of this beautiful green blue water is likely to house infinite crocodiles I starting looking for alternative ways to entertain myself. The entertainment in Darwin…
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Goodbye Outback, Hello Darwin
Before I arrived in Darwin I had one more stop on my schedule: Berry Springs. All these hot springs in the Northern Territory have the worst names from colonizers. The local name for it is Laniyuk. I drove in at 9am to a surprisingly full parking lot. I short walk through a beautiful park takes…
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Northern Territory: Litchfield National Park
The road that leads north to Darwin is one highway called the 1. This road wraps around the country so you can take it from Perth to Broome to Darwin to Cairns and all the way down to the southern more populous cities. It makes for easy driving and the speed limit is 130km per…
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Northern Territory: Oasis in the Desert
The Top End of Australia, as the Northern Territory is lovingly known as, is mostly outback. In the dry season everything looks like a desert that has been void of water for ages. What is lurking tucked behind these mountains and valleys are the most beautiful swimming holes and waterfalls in Australia. I was driving…
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Me, the Outback, & the Road
Once we got into Broome the question was ok what is next and how long are we staying here. It was peak season for Broome and with all the lockdowns and inability to leave the country Australians were traveling north in mass. Normally Broome is a town of 15,000 people, in peak season it goes…
my feet don't want to go to sleep 