FIND & HOLD JASPER Australia Big Righthand Turn MARBLE BAR
DAY 10 Try my luck finding gold in a hot and dry creek bed - Traveldriven Marble Bar The town of Marble Bar was named after a nearby jasper bar was mistaken for marble. The jasper bar runs across the bed of the Coongan River. Large gold nuggets were discovered as a result of the Marble Bar goldrush. The 333 ounce Little Hero The 413 ounce (11.7kg) Bobby Dazzler The 332 ounce (9.4kg) General Gordon All were found in the goldfields around the town. I gathered several hand size
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HOTTEST TOWN IN AUSTRALIA Big Righthand Turn MARBLE BAR Day 9
Great Northern Highway The highway is the longest in Australia with a total length of 3,200 km. This inland highway connects Perth to Wyndham in the far North of Western Australia. Travelling from Perth the highway route passes through Newman and onto Port Hedland on the coast. Newman is the turn off to the town of Marble Bar. Marble Bar Road continues to the small stop of Nullagine and onto Marble Bar. A road distance of about 300 km. Marble Bar A town in the Pilbara of nort
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RED DOG 'PILBARA WANDERER'
Red Dog, The Traveller's best friend Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) Was a kelpie cattle dog cross that was well known for his travels through Western Australia's vast Pilbara region. Red Dog travelled on his own, visiting Pilbara settlement's. A friendly traveller of all who encountered him in the greater Pilbara community. A statue was installed in his memory in Dampier, one of the towns to which he often returned. Red Dog The Movie, a feature film, tells his life and
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MEET ALIENS, CARNARVON Australia Big Righthand Turn WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Meet friendly aliens and blast off into outer space free of charge. -Only in Carnarvon Day 7 Carnarvon Western Australia Is a coastal town situated about nine hundred kilometres (560 mi) north of Perth, Western Australia. Situated on the Gascoyne River which in turn enters the Indian Ocean. Tourist brochures advertise the town as experiencing the never-ending summer. The town is warm to hot year round. A town of spaceman, aliens in the museum and bananas. During the 1960s, NA
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HMAS SYDNEY SUNK GERALDTON Day 6 WESTERN AUSTRALIA
PORT OF GERALDTON GERALDTON WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Known as Gero to locals) is a coastal city in the Mid-West region of Western Australia, four hundred and twenty kilometres north of the state capital, Perth. A memorial for the World War II cruiser HMAS Sydney and its crew stands on Gummer Avenue. The memorial recognises the loss of the light cruiser during a mutually destructive fight with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off of Shark Bay in November 1941. None of the 645 c
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DRIVING PINNACLES DESERT Australia Big Righthand Turn WESTERN AUSTRALIA
DAY 5 INDIAN OCEAN DRIVE Where can you see a ute parked on a pub roof? I'll drink to that! -Cunderdin local Cunderdin Is a town located in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The Cunderdin Pub Located 156km east of Perth in the small town of Cunderdin is designed on the 'Etamogah' cartoons. Etamogah means ' Place of a good drink '. The much older Cunderdin pub burnt down in 2000 and was rebuilt as the Etamogah Pub. Seabird A small quiet coastal fishing area just over
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