Tennant Creek, Australia

Day 5

Hi Gear Heads---off on day five of the challenge and today we will detour from cars into the realm of boats and then go about 500 k down the road in an afternoon rush to the Banka Banka Outback Station for a good night rest! I camped in the Katherine Gorge last night and today I found out...

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Mike_Veine on September 4, 2012 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Mike's Top Gear Challenge

Awesome Ride and On to the Final Phase

Well I am now in Tennant Creek and waiting to go to the Post Office tomorrow to see if some packages have arrived for me. Mt Isa managed to lose my food drop so I have been scavanging snickers bars and tangerines to supplement my soup since snack items or prepared foods are all I could find some...

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Mike_Veine on August 18, 2012 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Mike's Magical Mystery Tour

Donkeys, Spiders and Mice

Drove back on ourselves and finally ended up at the MacDonnell ranges and went to Ellery Creek Big Hole for a nice refreshing early morning swim. By refreshing, I mean bloody freezing! Many other people went down, dipped their feet in the water before running off scared, Chris and I were the...

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chrischarly on October 26, 2011 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly Down Under

Noch einmal durchs Outback

Etwas verspaetet fanden wir Phillip und Bruce (sein gelbes Auto) und mit Frederick (auch aus Deutschland) fuhren wir coole Strecken. Erster Stopp war noch einmal Mataranka, das nun nicht mehr wegen Fluten geschlossen war. Dort tauchten wir mit Schildkroeten und Leguanen in einer heissen...

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Chrizzy on May 12, 2011 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Australien und Neuseeland

To the Tropics - Night 134

My adventure tour from Alice Springs to Darwin left at 5:30 this morning. Our new driver, Trav, was overly enthusiastic at the early hour and once again no one wanted to ride shotgun so I gladly accepted the honor. Shortly after leaving on Alice on the Stuart Highway we crossed the Tropic of...

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exumenius on February 21, 2008 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

Return To The Alice: Day 3

Most road trips in Australia involve copious amounts of driving distances incomprehensible to anyone whos never left the UK. Not even a fortnights holiday in Spain or a trip around France can prepare you for the sheer amount of kilometres you can drive without seeing anything. Today was Big...

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Koala Bear on August 26, 2007 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz

We are now in the Northern Territory

We travelled over the last couple of days on the Barkly Highway across the Barkly Tablelands towards the Stuart Highway . We camped at two nice spots but there lots of rain . It continues to produce unseasonal rains, we are definitely the drought breakers. Coming towards the Three Ways...

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michelle62 on June 25, 2007 from Tennant Creek, Australia

from the travel blog: Travelling around Australia

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