Tag Archives: The Granites

Camp Dog of the week: “Ding” the Dingo Pup

October 29, 2009 – 9:56 am

He must have been a lot more relaxed being held by me because he started eating like crazy and nearly ate my fingers as I was holding the chicken neck! He was very skinny, with bones showing through his skin and I could count all of his ribs..

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Hell road of the year – the Tanami Track

October 1, 2009 – 2:36 pm

The Shire of Halls Creek is particularly impecunious; it has a very small rating base and few other revenue opportunities…it is responsible for a very large road network that it does not have adequate resources to maintain at an appropriate level…[t]he poor state of the Tanami Road is a serious impediment to providing services of all kinds.

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Worst road in the world?…Australia? The Tanami Road

October 31, 2008 – 6:53 pm

WARNING – this road eats cars…and trucks…and road trains…and caravans…and just about everything else that travels across it!!
The Tanami Road/Track/Highway (take your pick) runs for just over 1,000 kilometres from just north of Alice Springs in the NT through to Halls Creek in WA. The first 200 kilometres to the crossing at the dry-as-a-bone-at-this-time-of-year Napperby [...]

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