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Outback Pub Crawl

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 2 September 2007 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

She came out with a fabric shopping bag, which had in it a beanie and inside the beanie was a baby Wallaroo. This little guy was tiny, and had simply been hanging around in a bag on a hook by the bar, while she worked behind the counter

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Posted in 2007 Red Centre & Back, Front Page, Pub | Tagged Attractions, Banjo Patterson, Barcoo Hotel Qld, Blackall QLD, Clanceys Overflow Hotel, Crocodile Dundee, Historic Significance, Ilfracombe, Isisford Qld, Longreach QLD, Pubs We Drank, Pubs We Stayed, Wild Life | Leave a reply

A night at Walkabout Creek

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 1 September 2007 by Chinwagger4 June 2021

We called in at the pub, entering the bar, the first thing that was apparent was emptiness. Just empty, no tables or chairs, no people only high stools around the bar. It was a long building with paraphernalia around the walls and on the rafters, and at the far end the one piece of furniture was a pool table.

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Posted in 2007 Red Centre & Back, Front Page, Pub | Tagged Attractions, Crocodile Dundee, Croocodile Dundee, Historic Significance, McKinlay QLD, Mount Isa, Pubs We Drank, Pubs We Stayed, Steven King, Tennant Creek, Tennant Creek Northern Territory, Walkabout Creek Hotel | Leave a reply

UFOs and Stone Marbles

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 31 August 2007 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

I certainly wasn’t thinking of aliens, aliens hadn’t crossed my mind at all before we stopped at Wycliffe Well for petrol.

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Posted in 2007 Red Centre & Back | Tagged Attractions, Camping, Devils Marbles Conservation Reserve, Geographic Features, Outdoor Art, Rock Formations, Tennant Creek Northern Territory | Leave a reply

Alice Springs, Australia’s heart and soul

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 30 August 2007 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

The link these people had to the rest of the world was a single strand of steel wire and the sound of the Morse code clacker. This wire was the connection between Europe and Australia by overland telegraph to Singapore and then cable from there to Darwin.

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Posted in 2007 Red Centre & Back | Tagged Alice Springs NT, Attractions, Camping, Geographic Features, Ghan Railway Museum, Museums, Oodnadatta South Australia, Rivers, Road Transport Hall of Fame, Telegraph Station, Todd River | Leave a reply

Henbury Meteorite Craters

Good Old Chinwagging Posted on 29 August 2007 by Chinwagger21 December 2017

Pieces of rock the size of a 200 litre oil drum made these huge indents in the earth as they hit the at around 40,000 Kms an hour

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Posted in 2007 Red Centre & Back | Tagged Alice Springs, Attractions, Camping, Craters, Earnest Giles highway, Geographic Features, Henbury Meteorite Craters, Historic Significance, Kings Canyon National Park, Lakes, Rock Formations | Leave a reply

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Houseboat on Caboolture River

Buying a House Boat

The phone call came late in the evening. I usually leave calls after eight at night. The phone played that stupid noise I had assigned the ring tone. Who the hell is this bloody phone bloody scam? I thought I'll ...
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A pair of Ugg Boots

Carpet Laying by Gazza

Through my life my close friend and ally in the sometimes serious and sometimes mischief passage of our joint existence has featured in a number of incidents that somehow become known as the Gazza Curse, I will leave the reader ...
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The Forklift

My son and I own a small flooring store, part of a bigger franchising network. He runs the store and I get to do all the jobs that are not selling flooring. There appear to be a lot of these ...
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First Red Claw Catches

First trip for our camper, we  travelled very west of here, to a place called Lake Boondooma . This is a man-made lake which has a huge area for camping. The camping is "bush camping", off grid no power, no ...
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Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

Sun Moon Lake Here We Come

After my assignment in Taipei Al and I decided to brave the wilds of inner Taiwan and find somewhere to spend a few days doing very little other than a some walking and perhaps some bike riding. Our destination is ...
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Coast Guard Rescue

Coast Guard Rescue

Sometimes things just don't go as right as they could and sometimes when that happens particular people are always present. You feel that perhaps, just perhaps they have a little bit influence, it could be some sort of bad air ...
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Caught by a Lure

Caught by a Lure

“Bugger it’s got me” The sound of a fisher that’s just been hooked by their own lure. Fishing in the Upper Noosa we only use lures. Mostly traditional lures, although we have tried various squidgy soft baits and this time ...
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Is Easter fishing cancelled again

Its Thursday 21st April 2011 and its been raining for three days, our back garden has had 24cm, 23cm and 19cm, Harley tells me there has been more further north at Cooroy. Great as Cooroy is close to where we ...
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Toilet paper and snorkelling

The morning constitutional, is always a ritual taken with some trepidation when camping. The facilities can vary from nothing at all, that's the dig your hole and bury your own business,  to full clean flush toilets with hot and cold water ...
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