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Darwin
Darwin
USS Peary memorial
US destroyer sunk at Darwin in 1942
Darwin War memorial
Northern Territory Parliament
Northern Territory Parliament
Northern Territory Parliament Chamber
Northern Territory Arms
Letters Patent for Northern Territory Arms
But no pictures allowed.
Northern Territory Wildlife Park
Australian Pelican
Crocodile
Big Monitor Lizard
Wallaby interloper!
Wandering through the park.
Elegant Sawfish
Wary, grumpy, Dingo
Dingo
Litchfield Park
Magnetic Termite Mound
Magnetic termite mounds
Like an abandoned graveyard.
Cathedral Termite Mound
Around 5m high, around 50 years old.
Wangi Falls
Darwin Military Museum
Bomber machine gun turret
Bomber machine gun turret
9.2 inch gun emplacement
Ghan
The Ghan
The Ghan
Ghan compartment
23 miles SE of Darwin
107 miles SE of Darwin
Nitmiluk National Park
Katherine Gorge
Nitmiluk National Park
Aboriginal Art
Nitmiluk National Park
174 miles SE of Darwin
80 miles North of Alice Springs
3 miles NW of Alice Springs
Ayers Rock
Mount Connor, aka Fooluru
En route to the real thing.
The Great Orange Rock
GOR at Sunrise
GOR shortly after Sunrise
Ayers Rock Resort
Not quite the desert I had expected
Uluru Base Walk
Definitely
not
a desert.
Kapi Mutitjulu water hole
At Uluru base. A stream dribbles in.
Climbers on the GOR
The Olgas
Distant Olgas
The Olgas
Olgas: Canyon stream
Olgas: Canyon wall
Ayers Rock Helicoper Tour
Helicoptering Scotsman
The Great Orange Rock
Sunset Camel Tour
Bold Adventurers
Intrepid Scotsman on Camel Back.
The camel is called Khan. This was not reassuring.
GOR as Sunset approaches
GOR at Sunset
Relieved Scotsman: at tour end
Aboriginal Cultural Performance
Aboriginal Cultural Performance
Alice Springs
Anzac Hill memorial
Alice Springs
From Anzac Hill
Much
lusher than I expected
Adelaide House: early hospital
John McDouall Stuart memorial
John McDouall Stuart memorial
Alice Springs Library
Plaisiodon centralis skeleton
Museum of Central Australia
Overland Telegraph Station
Telegraph Office
Battery House
Alice Springs Desert Park
Kangaroo Propaganda
Thorny Devil
Thorny Devil
Hopping Mouse Propaganda
Desert Skink
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Intrusive species
Kookaburra
Ghan: Alice to Adelaide
Alice Springs: Ghan Station
Leaving Alice Springs
85 miles South of Alice Springs
Cattle, 101 miles South of Alice Springs
138 miles North of Adelaide
110 miles North of Adelaide
67 miles North of Adelaide
Adelaide
South Australia Parliament
South Australia Parliament
War Memorial
Government House
Edward VIII, King & Emperor
Adelaide University hall
Matthew Flinders
Charles Sturt, Explorer
James McDouall Stuart, Explorer
Adelaide Town Hall
Central Market: good cheese
South Australia Supreme Court
St Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide
Australian Lutheran College, North Adelaide
Sample house, North Adelaide
River Torrens
Old Customs House, Port Adelaide
Old Telegraph Station, Port Adelaide
Pacific at Adelaide
South Australian Maritime Museum
South Australian Maritime Museum
Scots Figurehead
Figurehead
Replica of 1880's ketch
Early wombat pictures!
Adwlaide Botanic Gardens
Victorian Palm House
Adelaide Botanic Gardens
Bicentennial Conservatory
Indoor rain forest!
Bicentennial Conservatory
Botanic gardens
Adelaide Zoo
Tasmanian Devil
Red ears are a sign of stress.
Tasmanian Devil
Wombat warnings, but no wombat.
Stoopid Panda
Curious Emu
South Australian Museum
Comparitive stone axes
Aboriginal versus others
Stone axe key
Thylacine models
Diprotodon skeleton/model
New Zealand
Australia (W-E)