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<title><![CDATA[ A night in the bush ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Sundays after church are good days to go out with Yapa friends. Last Sunday four of us, two Yapa and two Kardiya  went out to find a place on their country c ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Camels and Covid ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ One evening, out the Mount Dension Road, these brumbies, looking very full of themselves. Another day this mob got out in front of us on a trip to Yarripir ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 22:44:46 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Some local birds ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  A pair of galahs. They generally hang out in larger, noisy gatherings, but these two were having a quiet time. Port Lincoln parrots. They are very comm ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 01:13:54 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Fire ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Fire history of central Australia, 1972–1984Note: Image derived from Landsat images and created as time since burnt prior to 1985 (Allan 1993). Fires during t ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:40:43 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Another trip ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  I felt that Coober Pedy to Alice was quite a drive, but a week later, my first morning back on Warlpiri country, I met two of my Yapa friends early in the mo ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2022 01:15:02 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Coober Pedy to Alice Springs ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  I left at first light Which was good, because the damaged country caused by opal mining all around Coober Pedy was barely visible First stop to stretc ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:36:11 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Stuart Highway ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Left Port Augusta at 8 and was soon at this amazing junctionPerth is 2300kms from here along the Nullarbor Road, and Darwin is 2700kms along the Stuart H ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Adelaide to Port Augusta ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Via Dublin  I think the other route might have been more scenic, but I would have missed going through Dublin Though there wasn&#039;t an awful lot to it  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2022 08:03:27 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Adelaide ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This is what I&#039;m here for  But I found the experience of visiting them very strange The North Terrace of Adelaide is a showcase of colonial history  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:58:27 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Mount Gambier to Adelaide ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Started the day with a lovely walk around The Blue Lake. Not as blue as it might be, no doubt, but it was early and the skies were grey. Some interesting ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Melbourne to Mount Gambier ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[    That&#039;s what it was supposed to look like, but somehow I went up to Ararat. No harm. Plenty of stops along the way, one for a cornish pastie and an apple t ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ Preparing for the trip ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  The car. The new roofrack, found on Gumtree for AU$100 The roadmap Water A second spare wheel (Gumtree, AU$50), more water, 60 extra litres of die ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:31:21 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Merri Creek at Coburg ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  The Merri Creek is an ancient watercourse that runs through North Melbourne and joins the Yarra before heading out to sea. During the 1970s conservationists ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 22:20:25 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Lucy in the sky ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Northote High Street Junk shop ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:55:52 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Why? ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Why do Irish people have brogues while all other people have accents? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 04:21:10 EDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Northcote. Sunday. ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ These cobbled lanes are all over the older suburbs of Melbourne. They were used by the sanitations crews who emptied the dunnys in the back gardens of the old ]]></description>
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