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Nancy Knudsen
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21.01.2022 Milparinka is just off the road in fact it isn't there at all any more just the pub and two houses for the caretakers. It was an early gold mining centre and just the stone remains of the buildings of quite a substantial town. At its height, Milparinka had a newspaper, police office, chemist shop, two butchers, a courthouse, a school, a hospital and four hotels - there's only one left. [ 542 more words ] http://blackwattleroaming.org//gold-town-to-cameron-corne/
18.01.2022 It's the 18th July, 2021 now and we're heading east - you could say we’ve turned for home, but it’s a long long way, toughest to come. We’re warned about Halls Creek - too dangerous, even if you lock everything. We’re warned about the Tanami Desert Crossing - too rough, even if you’re careful. We’re warned about Charlie - too much 1080 poison, too many snakes, camp dogs, dingoes, ticks, even with his extra tick collar. ... http://blackwattleroaming.org/2021/07/28/youve-been-warned/
17.01.2022 7th July, 2021: There’s always someone to give you good advice as you travel - and sometimes it’s good, sometimes not. So, after leaving Broome, we turn off our intended destination near the tip of Cape Leveque, to check out a campsite on the way - Gnylmarung, run by an indigenous family - or community, we never do quite find out.... http://blackwattleroaming.org//from-broomes-glitz-back-to/
16.01.2022 So great to see Lainie and Terry after a long time, catching up on what our mutual sailing friends are - or are not - doing. We camp beside them for a few days in the CMCA bush camp. From right, Lainie, Terry and Ted (and of course Charlie) Charleville is a kooky little town with a Hotel charismatically called the [ 462 more words ] http://blackwattleroaming.org/20//12/nothing-goes-to-plan/
14.01.2022 We’re aiming for the Tanami Desert but Derby is close, so we’re tempted to visit as neither of us have been there. The countryside moving north is changing. Flowering wattle forests change to wide yellow grasslands populated by termite mounds, literally thousands of them, all producing methane, just as cattle do. Now the earth changes from rust red to ochre yellow, and back again.... http://blackwattleroaming.org/2021/07/25/into-boab-land/
11.01.2022 We leave Lightning Ridge aiming for Cameron Corner, heading for Goodooga for overnight, but one look at, first the town, then the big square paddock packed with caravans around the hot springs bath, and the foot lands on the accelerator. So we head south west into claypan and mulga bush country. We're getting used to the mirages that remain permanently on the road ahead and float around the horizons. [ 132 more words ] http://blackwattleroaming.org///05jul20-the-lovely-barwon/
08.01.2022 Alice Springs, 'The Alice', 'The Red Centre', movie set extraordinaire, (A Town Like Alice, Last Cab to Darwin, Pine Gap, Queen of the Desert dozens of others, some brilliant, some ghastly, no, that’s too gentle - appalling!) Certainly, an Australian icon and not just on Australian shores. So what is the old lady of the desert like today?... http://blackwattleroaming.org//alice-an-eccentric-old-lady/
07.01.2022 The McDonnell Ranges of Central Australia have long been promoted by marketers, lauded by writers, photographed incessantly and adored by visitors. We’re heading north, but we can’t help taking a day or two first to drive the famous crescent route through Namatjira Country. We head out through Heavitree Gap for the West McDonnell Ranges Hermannsburg is a delight, not because of its paternalistic history, but because of how magnificently it has now been restored by its traditional owners, the... http://blackwattleroaming.org//08/12/the-namatjira-palette/
05.01.2022 At first everything goes well. Driving through these western NSW plains is like passing through a movie set. Trees float on the horizon, grass grows between a long railway track as straight as the sandy red road ahead. Young green cotton fields are both sides, monstrous wheat silos compete with the newer cotton buildings. Gidgee trees splatter the fields untidily and the irrigation channels thread through the fields, showing occasional sun reflections in the distance. [ 229 more words ] http://blackwattleroaming.org//into-bogan-territory-then-/
03.01.2022 If we thought that Camden Park was desert... What are we doing here Mum? What happened to Home? View at sunset - that cattle feeder is now a Loo! This is such an old tree -Where are its friends? How did it survive? What stories could it tell? ... we were heartbroken to arrive in Longreach and hear about their eight year drought. [ 316 more words ] http://blackwattleroaming.org//the-heartbreak-of-eight-ye/
