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The Bald Journaller
Jul 23, 20181 min read
Day 37 (Magnetic Island - a very attractive place!)
Not a lot to say again (phew, you say) - spent the day grabbing breakfast (Nareesa had some world new age thing with açai, which looked,...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 22, 20182 min read
Day 36 (another slow day drifting south)
Sunday night - turns out Townsville shuts at 9pm! But not before we have found the ferry to Magnetic Island, booked it for tomorrow, and...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 22, 20181 min read
Day 35 (Mission Beach, and a short drive south)
A lazy breakfast, a lazy morning, and a lazy lunch - and all without getting out of Mission Beach. You can see why! We considered going...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Day 34 (Atherton Tablelands and a quick stop in the Art Deco capital of Australia)
A full on day, possibly trying to cover too much ground, but we couldn’t find anywhere we wanted to stay in the Atherton Tablelands so we...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 19, 20182 min read
Day 32 & 33 (Cairns to Kuranda - and back again)
Rain!!!! What? Its the dry season. Well I guess all things are relative. Rain pelting down on the tin roof woke us up in our salubrious...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 17, 20182 min read
Day 29-31 (Daintree rainforest)
With no internet to speak of it has been a brilliant opportunity to just "get away from it all". And what better place than the world's...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 14, 20183 min read
Day 27 & 28 (Darwin - where art comes alive and stand-up comedy comes to die)
First up the art...lots of outdoor art, indoor galleries, fringe theatre and of course the deckchair cinema - "what cinema is all about",...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 13, 20182 min read
Day 26 (across the continent)
Today we crossed the continent from south to north - not in one day obviously, but we reached Darwin having left Adelaide, what, 3 weeks...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 11, 20181 min read
Day 25 (Litchfield National Park)
A short blog just to catch up... Its been wildlife day today, with a wallaby, a dingo, a wild pig and hundreds of ghost bats seen on our...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 11, 20184 min read
Day 24 (Berry Springs and Batchelor)
My theme for the day is heat (or lack of) - not that I have had a theme before, but plus ca change. We started our day with a visit to...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 10, 20183 min read
Day 22 & 23 (Kakadu National Park)
I think I might have managed to get a few pictures up. But lots of backlog which will have to wait till Darwin I think. Then they will...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 9, 20182 min read
Day 21 (into the Kakadu)
After packing up our camp, draining our "grey water" and topping up our fresh tank, we left Nitmiluk with slightly heavy hearts. Hard to...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 9, 20183 min read
Day 19 & 20 (a short detour to Nitmiluk Gorge)
Nitmiluk National Park looked like a worthy detour from the unrelenting northern progress and we decided to stay for 2 days. Be nice not...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 6, 20182 min read
Day 18 (right into the tropics and a stop in Katherine)
As if to confirm his eccentricity, John greeted us the next morning to announce he was off for his bush walk - he showed us his knapsack...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 6, 20184 min read
Day 17 (from Tennant Creek to see the Pink Panther)
I've had to give up uploading pictures for now - the upload internet speeds on occasional wifi or mobile signal don't seem to be able to...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 4, 20182 min read
Day 16 (go north young man (& woman))
Had no wifi or phone signal for any length of time in last few days so think I am a few days behind - but - day 16, here goes... 3 season...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 2, 20182 min read
Day 15 (hanging around with Alice)
Bit behind now! A day hanging around in Alice, turned into one of those serendipitous moments when, with absolutely no planning...
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The Bald Journaller
Jul 1, 20182 min read
Day 14 (back to Alice)
A day of driving and washing. We left Uluru early morning to do the 500km drive back to Alice Springs. We have been warned that hitting a...
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The Bald Journaller
Jun 29, 20183 min read
Day 12 & 13 (Uluru)
2 days - long on walking and reflecting - short on time to write. Its hard to describe the impact Uluru has had on me, but it is its...
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The Bald Journaller
Jun 27, 20181 min read
Day 11 (Alice to Uluru)
Long driving day, short blog. Well when I say long - about the same distance as London to Edinburgh, covered in about half the time, the...
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