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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SUPER PIT OF GOLD KALGOORLIE WESTERN AUSTRALIA
DAY 4 'Sheepishly with car bonnet up I told the auto electrician the problem solved itself' -in the WA goldfields, Traveldriven CURRENT KALGOORLIE REGION FIVE DAY FORECAST DRIVE NORSEMAN - KALGOORLIE - PERTH Norseman The small town is in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway, seven hundred and twenty-five kilometres (451 mi) east of Perth. Norseman is a small town of almost six hundred people. The town is surprisingly spr
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ONE MILLION KANGAROO'S & SKYLAB NULLARBOR TOWNS?
DAY 3 What it feels like to be nowhere? Then, drive Cocklebiddy to Balladonia 220km. -A no man's land. Outback Driving Although the one and only East\West road between the southern Australian states and Western Australia is fully sealed it's very remote and isolated country. The Eyre Highway skirts the fringe of the Nullarbor Plain and the highway has the longest stretch of straight road in Australia. Perhaps is one of the longest in the world. Needless to say, there is no ro
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