Category: Travel
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Leaving Alice on Jet Plane – Over the Ditch with Da Qua
Tales of Travel in the Trans-Tasman Bubble Author DaQua ◦ Farewell’s bade and hugs all-round the excitement of flying again was building – it was time to leave the Covid comfort of the Territory, relative to the rest of the… Continue reading
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Holiday at Home in Alice
Author Toni Ryland ◦ DAY 1 ◦ Today was the first day of my “Holiday at Home in Alice”. Because there are lots of positive things about living here. There are still many things I’d like to see and do… Continue reading
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Auburn Awaits
Author DaQua ◦ Part 7 ◦ With less than two hours to go to my destination of Auburn, my mind drifted back and forth. In the past three days, I had left behind the storm of Alice, with desert rains… Continue reading
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A Seaside Sojourn of Stories
Author DaQua ◦ Part 6 ◦ The final drive of my Alice to Auburn Audacious Adventure, was within reach; 190 km south east lay my destination – the little off grid house, amongst the gum trees, that would become my… Continue reading
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One People One Country One Dreaming
Author DaQua ◦ Part 4 ◦ Woomera and Roxy Downs – famous, infamous, however you wish to frame them, past or present – seeing these place names and the signposted prohibited areas the size of some small countries, that flank… Continue reading
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Coober to the Coast
Author DaQua ◦ Part 3 ◦ White Fella in a Hole Pulling out of Coober Pedy there were two options – turn right and it would be 689 km back to Alice Springs – turn left and I would be… Continue reading
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Day Two (Coober Pedy)
Author DaQua ◦ Part 2 ◦ Faith Goes Underground and So Do I All sense of time and season, (and I daresay reason, for some), is lost when you are in a Dug Out. There is no light of day… Continue reading
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Alice to Auburn – the Audacity of Adventure
Author DaQua ◦ Part 1 ◦ Telling the family “You are going where?”— “Auburn, South Australia” “From Alice?”— “That’s right.” “How”— “I am driving.” “On your own?”— ” Yes, that’s right too.” “When?”— “When I am sorted.” “How long will… Continue reading
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Photographer’s paradise
Author Dorothy L. ◦ Part 4 ◦ Smelling the salt air of the coast… It was worth coming to the Otways Ranges, photographer’s paradise. Eastern, Flame, Pink, Rose and Scarlet Robins, Olive Whistler and the Rufous Fantail. WOW what a… Continue reading
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Alice’s Hidden Oasis
Travelling around Australia, we have stumbled across many special places to stay, an oasis where our soul can rest and rejuvenate… from the special silence of camping in the Carnarvon Gorge (Queensland), to the sound of sheep outside the cottage… Continue reading
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whirr… whirr… a flat battery!!
Author Dorothy L. ◦ Part 3 ◦ A sound no driver wants to hear!!! Crossing from South Australia into Victoria, stopping at some lovely small stopovers along the way, Merino… just one night. At Goroke, Henry had a small amount… Continue reading
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Back on the road…
Author Dorothy L. ◦ Part 2 ◦ Excitement among the scrubby dead trees… A couple of days later I was back on the road, heading into South Australia, Narracoorte for fresh supplies, then onto the Bool Lagoon. Little Grassbird and… Continue reading