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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

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