Tag: australia
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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: 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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Western Australia: Gibb River Road
The most beautiful places are the hardest ones to access. That is always true. In Western Australia there is a famous road that leads from Broome to Darwin that is hundreds of kilometers long of unsealed road. It takes you through the Kimberley’s, an incredibly beautiful area of the outback. It is remote with no…
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Western Australia: The Southern Coastline
Western Australia is freaking massive. Seriously it is basically the whole left side of this country. Exploring this was going to take some logistics but mostly some luck. I have been dreaming of this side of the country for years now and was ecstatic I had arrived. I booked into a hostel for the first…
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South Australia
When you leave the east coast of Australia all the states just have directional names not names of British derivatives. East side; Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales. Rest; Western Australia, Southern Australia, Northern Territory. The capital is technically Canberra which no one really cares about and then of course there is Tasmania but that’s separate.…
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