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Day 4 (Continued)

(see Lyndhurst entry)

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shoshtrvls on April 5, 1990 from Leigh Creek, Australia

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After lunch we drove through Parachilna Gorge where the road was criss-crossed by a creek. We saw a wallaby and passed through Angorichina to Parachilna. From there it was north to Leigh Creek and Lyndhurst, where the paved road ends and the Strzelecki Track begins. It is also were "talc...

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shoshtrvls on April 5, 1990 from Lyndhurst, Australia

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Day 4 (Continued)

From Lyndhurst it was about 80 km to Marree, which consists of an old Victorian hotel right out of a John Wayne western, which is where we stayed for the night, and a "petrol" station. Tomorrow we start the Oodnadatta Track to Ayers Rock and Alice Springs, and just learned that Lake Eyre...

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shoshtrvls on April 5, 1990 from Marree, Australia

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Day 3

We left Adeleide around 9:30 or 10:00, with our first destination being Gawler on the lower Barossa Valley, a wine growing region. Instead of going directly into the Barossa Valley, we headed up highway 32 towards Tarlee.

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Tarlee, Australia

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Day 3 (Continued)

After Tarlee, we made a wrong turn and ended up on 83 driving through Auburn on our way to Clare. This turned out to be good luck because to cut back over we went through Mintaro, a quaint, very little 19th century town. Just outside of Mintaro was Martindale Hall, the house allegedly featured...

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Burra, Australia

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Day 3 (Continued)

(see Quorn entry)

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Orroroo, Australia

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Day 3 (Continued)

(See Quorn entry)

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Wilmington, Australia

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Day 3 (Continued)

From Burra, it was through Terowie, Peterborough and Orroroo. We then crossed over to Wilmington and up to Quorn.

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Quorn, Australia

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Day 3 (Continued)

Quorn through to Hawker was nice, with many old ruins of towns which literally died in the 1870's. After Hawker we saw our first kangaroos, the first one was just sitting by the road and initially we thought he was hurt (so I didn't take his picture), until he hopped away. We also saw emus...

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shoshtrvls on April 4, 1990 from Hawker, Australia

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